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China currently has a massive problem with youth unemployment and this is their plan?
Ah, the WSJ, bastion of level-headed reporting. Since I clicked through to the article and read the one paragraph us free-tier losers get (one more than the rest of you read) I know that it was Huawei trying to recruit semi-conductor manufacturing engineers from Germany.
So settle down, China isn’t trying to pay you $240K a year to make wordpress sites for them, it’s just another front in the ongoing microchip wars.
Would I have to work in China? If so, no thank you.
If not…
3x my salary you say?
Nooooo you can’t give workers competitive offers for employment, you’re supposed to collude to keep wages low! Actually competitive capitalism loses us money!
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If I can work remotely I’m not against receiving a shitton of Chinese money.
So, eh, were are those offers, so I can avoid looking at them? Specially C/C++ ones.
I’d take the job and keep my current one. Then I would put in the least effort possible to keep the Chinese job. The plan would be to take in as much pay as possible until they fire me.
Why not do this to shitty US companies too? It’s all the same.
The only difference is my work reputation in the US matters more to me than in china . If I lost a job in china and tarnished my rep I wouldn’t give a single fuck. In the US it’s a bit different. Maybe not by much but still. Plus fuck china.
So, time to lie on linkedin, pretend to be a senior engineer at some big company and wait for a Chinese offer
Is it just a thing I’ve experienced in a Western country or don’t tech types tend to lean on the social libertarian ideals including free speech? Because they may not care for China so much in that regard.
Depends on the corner of the tech world I think. In FOSS circles, sure.