Comment by bonsai_spool

16 hours ago

There are not enough qualified people in any particular country for all the possible new technologies that could be deployed. You're not likely to hire your plumber to program a webapp.

That doesn't mean your plumber isn't qualified—just that people looking for webapps want to hire workers who know how to make them.

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ipaddr  15 hours ago

So many computer science grads can't find work many have left the field. I don't think we will run out of workers.

There is the other side plenty of workers successful at programming language could be trained to fill any gap. That's what happened in the 50s and 60s..

  • dnnddidiej  11 hours ago

    Companies also struggle to hire. It is a skills matching issue.

    • hunterpayne  9 hours ago

      Companies struggle to hire at a rate they want to pay. They don't struggle to hire at a market rate pay or more. Funny how that works.

      PS The number of roles that there aren't qualified Americans for could be counted on one hand. This has always been about reducing salaries, not shortages.

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    • kasabali  6 hours ago

      it's a companies not wanting to spend any amount of time and money training an employee and wanting 100% utilization the second the employment starts issue.