Same situation here in Germany, where companies are worried about attracting skilled foreign workers while right-wing extremist parties are gaining more and more votes.
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2024
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It’s kind of baffling that the saner elements of these conservative parties simply don’t get that all the really smart people who tend to have disproportionately large positive impacts on their country’s economies simply won’t put up with authoritarian governments, and will straight up leave if push comes to shove. The politicians in question are evidently unable to understand the catastrophic impact that brain drain can have on a country in the medium- to long-term.
They don't care. They're happy with their little fiefdoms, even if all they rule over is mud.
My homeland, Portugal, was until 50 years ago governed by the Fascists.
There were maybe 9 extremelly wealthy families all the while the country was crushingly poor with most of the population below the poverty line (we're talking children walking to school barefoot in the middle of Winters as my mother did levels of poverty).
The country required a Revolution to overthrow Fascism.
Personally all of it tells me all I need to know about just how much the hard right (which nowadays in many places includes a lot of the old "center"-right mainstream parties) and beyond cares about the fate of the rest of their country.
They don't care. They aren't even looking at the small picture, they are busy trying to decide which crayon to eat.
Hey, the marines would be very upset if they heard you badmouthing their favorite flavor.
I think that those people might actually think that what they're doing is good for the country and that that's what people want
In typical scenario private company lobbies governmemt to pass favorable law
Here government lobbies itself to pass favorable law for a private company
Worth mentioning: TSMC has the same problem:
https://www.thinkchina.sg/taiwan-lacks-young-passionate-workers-semiconductor-industry
POTENTIAL CURBS ON FOREIGN STUDENTS Around 40% of ASML's 23,000 employees in the Netherlands are not Dutch
hell, when I interviewed at ASML in San Jose, California, i had the vibe that most of the employees there werent American born. sounds like its an internal hiring problem.
A lot of IT companies in NL hire foreigners. There's just too little local offer. They throw with work visas as a result, because they've never heard about remote-first work being possible after covid. They can't modernize their work culture because of stupid old fashioned managers and as a result NL has one of the worst housing crisis in Europe. And pay ain't that good either in a lot of cases, taking into account how much you lose on rent.
the problem is at least on the U.S end, San Jose is part of the Silicon Valley. Talent is not the problem, its the people who ultimately choose to hire is going out of its way to hire talent that seemed non local.
See this is the sad part.
I'd take a job in NL only if it let me relo there for awhile. My bro did that for a few posts, and got a year or two in new country to explore on the weekends with each new posting.
So while remote-first is how I want to work, I'd want resources and ability to relo to a new place every few years. You need to be in place that renews you mentally when you're not working.
Especially in I-T, if you can't go somewhere new and enjoy new sounds, sights, smells and customs, and you're stuck in a sad cube jungle with no excitement at the end of the week, you may as well report to the Soylent green plant.
Time to refit the cruise ship for live-aboard remote global work for me and like 6000 of my friends. Starlink works on the cruise runs, right?
Do you imply that they're not looking at foreign employees when hiring? Because that's what is getting more difficult due to regulations.