- Large and increasing supply of skilled workers from East and South-East Asia, who are willing to work for lower wages.
- Skill based work is hard to defend and retain in the presence of significant competition.
- Tech companies may create and make widely available training programs to become a software engineer, also increasing supply. (I don't understand why this hasn't become the main purpose of MOOCs).
Chamath Phalipapitya (sp?) called programming the "blue collar work of the 21st century".
- Risk of loosening of immigration restrictions
- Large and increasing supply of skilled workers from East and South-East Asia, who are willing to work for lower wages.
- Skill based work is hard to defend and retain in the presence of significant competition.
- Tech companies may create and make widely available training programs to become a software engineer, also increasing supply. (I don't understand why this hasn't become the main purpose of MOOCs).
Chamath Phalipapitya (sp?) called programming the "blue collar work of the 21st century".