misterbee

Even worse, Apple etc do engineering work in EU, and then lie to regulators to say that "no innovation happens in Europe" to avoid local taxes.

thought experiment: What if Apple spun out Apple Design as a US company and paid it contract rates to invent, much like it outsources factories to Chinese companies? then how are the holding-companies profits taxes?

That's great, for each of you there are 10 people who look like you but who rip off their clients. So what's a client to do?

Google's original name was "BackRub". Facebook was "TheFaceBook". They changed the name when it mattered.

That's product quality, not market fit. Market fit is reaching the people who would buy your product, and meeting their needs, before you are famous enough for them to find you.

they are researchers, not employees. Employees are the people you need to do drudge work in a professional manner.

that's because the Garmin screen was resistive, not capacitive, and it was years before autocomplete tech.

the term "product-market (mis)fit" means that the product failed to find its market, not that the product has no market. The term for that is "shitty product".

> It's very hard to drop someone else into an unfamiliar codebase and have them pick up where the original person left off,

Eh, this is what every new employee at an established company does.

And when a startup has a "technical cofounder", that usually means the "tech" is a CRUD website, as opposed to a novel invention being productized (in which case it would be a technical founder or technical founder pair.

That doesn't really hold up. Once we are well clear of the minimum wage, there is room to have an inversion where there are 1000 positions to fill and 500 qualified candidates who could auction-price themselves above the profit they generate.

Your whole argument hinges on an assumption that national borders are somehow relevant in determining which workers are entitled to jobs. You could recast the same argument in terms of races, and it holds up equally well -- reserving jobs for whites protects the employments of a country's own citizenry, black people don't deserve the rights of citizens, women should stay home and not interfere in business, yadda yadda.

That doesn't make sense. The marginal rate for an H1-B employee should be approximately the same as the marginal rate for a local employee -- If talent is truly scarce, then your existing employees wages are bid up to the max already.

Well, "foreign" indicates that the operation was likely illegal. You might think that law unfairly discriminatory, but even so, if it is lowering wages, it is a net-loss overall, as more money its pocketed by wealthy owners instead of wage-earning employees.

Are we overlooking the crime associated with corporate management, the featherbedding, and how non-union company employees abjectly failed to thrive in the -- what's a "post-post-WWII era" anyway?

This is not true. You pay supply/demand. Someone with less expenses, or visa constraints, or other geographic constraints, but equally talented, will accept a lower wage.