George Hermes
1 min readJan 14, 2025

“Talent Scarcity” in software industry is BS.

I call BS, dumbasses.

There is not “talent scarcity”. I know too many talented people looking for work.

The idea of “talent scarcity” is a red herring for cheap labor from other countries, simply because greedy wealthy people want to make more and more and not pay people a living wage.

You do know, greed-monsters, that this is ridiculous, do you not? You do not need this much money.

Some companies have outsourced their “white collar” workers to other countries (for cheap labor) to the extent that these so-called American companies have more employees outside of the U.S. than in, and are not even hiring in the US anymore.

And yet they want more H1B visas so they will have cheaper labor so they can make more profits.

The product quality, the customers, and the employees should clearly be the priority not this Idiocy around cheapness and profit above people.

This model does not last long-term.

Remember what happened to manufacturing in this country? And the desolation that has followed? This is happening now with knowledge workers.

  1. Train people. This is a normal course of events (except in tech for whatever reason.)
  2. It should be the norm so people are on the same page.
  3. Smart people can learn.
George Hermes
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