My other citizenship is Canadian. There certainly isn't any difference in this regard. I was up in the Maritimes recently and visited with a consultancy that wanted to hire me as a kind of sales rep. Their pitch was "If you need some custom programming, we can do it cheaper because you pay us in Canadian dollars". Ironically, a friend introduced me to another business owner who out-sourced all his custom web stuff to an Albanian custom programming company. They could do it for about $10 US/hour. So on it goes...
-Alex P.S. Perhaps we need to think about this in the same terms that we talk about any other goods that come into the country. If you have an unfair advantage because in some sense you subsidize the product, in this case programming skills, you get hit with a tarrif that reflects your lower cost of operation. This seems a bit strange in this case because we're really talking about lower cost of living which in the case of for example Indian programmers versus American (domestic) programmers is purely due to a lower standard of living. One thing that would have greatly mitigated the H1-B problem would have been issuing the H1-B visa people green cards. They would then have a stronger tendency to stay in the U.S. with all the costs that that implies. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 2:45 PM Subject: Re: Are American high tech workers obsolete? > > I find current American culture, in general, has a hard time looking > beyond the immediate. From people who drive dangerously on the road to save > two minutes of travel time, to people who want instant gratification for > everything, to people who cook the books of major corporations, to those who > exploit the very enviornment we live in, many do not seem to be able to look > to the future. > > (Of course, this is likely not limited to American culture; I simply point > to it because I live in it. I'm not qualified to speak on the cultures of > other nations.) > > -- > Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | > | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | > | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
