The (non-)Myth of High-Tech Outsourcing

It looks like a few spe­cial­ized areas are hir­ing, so this means that no one is out­sourc­ing any­more? Wrong. And their num­bers just don’t add up. Adding 150,000 jobs is only a frac­tion of the 1 mil­lion lost. It’s noth­ing more than pro­pa­ganda to con­vince the gov­ern­ment to raise the H-1B visa ceil­ing. You’ll notice how it fails to men­tion the large num­ber of un– and under-employed engi­neers who could be trained to fill these positions.

I par­tic­u­larly enjoy how these pro­pa­ganda pieces always seem to be aston­ished at the drop in col­lege grad­u­ates in tech fields. It’s sim­ple, really. These kids are smart enough to see what hap­pens to tech work­ers and they’re head­ing for careers where they’re more likely to be treated like humans and less likely to be tossed aside like a used tissue.

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