Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

[mookie1995]

Maybe but I think a lot of it is coming to a new culture. Imagine having to navigate highly technical work and also assimilate to a new culture. Talk about a handicap.

I doubt bright Americans would thrive if they entered the Indian economy.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

Maybe but I think a lot of it is coming to a new culture. Imagine having to navigate highly technical work and also assimilate to a new culture. Talk about a handicap.

I doubt bright Americans would thrive if they entered the Indian economy.

Language/culture barrier is an issue, to be sure, but not as big as you might think. A lot of IT workers in India go to "coding bootcamps" or ITT Tech equivalents rather than attend a proper university. The bootcamps/for-profits churn out people who know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to write production-ready code or properly interpret functional and technical requirements while considering all the consequences of their solutioning choices.

[French Rage]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

The bootcamps/for-profits churn out people who know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to write production-ready code or properly interpret functional and technical requirements while considering all the consequences of their solutioning choices.

^^^ this ^^^

[mookie1995]

^^^ this ^^^

So fr rage saying these were the dudes who “flew” the 737 max???

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

^^^ this ^^^

It's especially apparent when they get thrown into cloud platforms like Salesforce for hundreds of hours of supposedly "cheap" sys ad/dev labor, but they end up taking hours and hours just to learn the platform and rarely grasp the best practices/dos and don'ts of implementing it. So they end up doing a lot of hack work that someone else has to unravel later.

[mookie1995]

It's especially apparent when they get thrown into cloud platforms like Salesforce for hundreds of hours of supposedly "cheap" sys ad/dev labor, but they end up taking hours and hours just to learn the platform and rarely grasp the best practices/dos and don'ts of implementing it. So they end up doing a lot of hack work that someone else has to unravel later.

Any attempt to mess with salesforce shows high intelligence

[joecct]

People stop buying your product if it doesn't work.

Never buy Version 1.0.

[joecct]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

Interesting

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/09/11/...g-workers.html

Sports officials - could the Law of Unintended Consequences have this apply to them since they need to belong to an officials organization and get games from an assignor?

[RaceBoarder]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

Interesting

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/09/11/...g-workers.html

Sports officials - could the Law of Unintended Consequences have this apply to them since they need to belong to an officials organization and get games from an assignor?

I don't think this is going to affect us.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

Never buy Version 1.0.

And never upgrade to Version 2.0 until Patch 2 or 3 is released.

[Kepler]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

Never buy Version n.0.

Fixed that for you.

Wait at least for n.1. Don't be the vendor's beta test.

[Jimjamesak]

Interesting

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/09/11/...g-workers.html

Sports officials - could the Law of Unintended Consequences have this apply to them since they need to belong to an officials organization and get games from an assignor?

No, at least not with soccer. My certification is through the USSF, same as any assignor I work through. HS and College is similar, HS I’m certified through the State Association and I work through an assignor who contracts with the schools.

Uber/Lyft/Doordash et al. all contract their drivers directly, they’re just abusing the contract worker method for their own profit.

[Kepler]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

Ending a 50-year heist.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

Ending a 50-year heist.

Awesome post. Fantastic but very depressing graph.

[TalonsUpPuckDown]

mookie, the techs in Bangalore would fail tremendously. I work with a number of them, and they are by far inferior to American and Indians techs who've migrated to the US.

I’ve been to Bangalore twice. The first time was to ship American jobs out of the country. The second trip was to ship them back.

Offshoring is good for repetitive, non value add activities like network monitoring, help desk, data center management, etc. Doesn’t work well where creativity and critical thinking is needed.