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[–] foggy 54 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As they should.

Money is the bottom line for your populace. We're the richest nation in history.

You lose your populace to the enemy over a few bucks thats on you.

This country is toast.

[–] DeadWorldWalking 3 points 3 weeks ago

Our fault for forcing money to be the end all be all of human existence

[–] ceenote 52 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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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[–] CodexArcanum 40 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] Knuk 20 points 3 weeks ago

If I can work remotely I'm not against receiving a shitton of Chinese money.

[–] peopleproblems 16 points 3 weeks ago

Would I have to work in China? If so, no thank you.

If not...

3x my salary you say?

[–] Valmond 12 points 3 weeks ago

So, eh, were are those offers, so I can avoid looking at them? Specially C/C++ ones.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So, time to lie on linkedin, pretend to be a senior engineer at some big company and wait for a Chinese offer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Plot twist, they’ll only pay in combinations of yuan and rubles.

[–] _stranger_ 1 points 3 weeks ago

Honestly, I'll take the barrel of sketchy oil.

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Depends on the corner of the tech world I think. In FOSS circles, sure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I could be convinced of anything with enough shovels full of money.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I guess some people are like that. To me, being rich isn't worth the trade-off of having to watch what I say all the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The loyalty is to the paycheck. Not like I am free do or say anything under current management and I assume the roles would be insulated from the Chinese government. They know the cultures differ and they would scare off nerds being evil and present.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I sure as hell wouldn't risk my life out of prison on such an assumption.

"They won't do anything to me, I'm a foreigner" is harshly proven wrong all over the world all the time. The idea that China would be any different to Joe Tech Worker when there are thousands more where he came from is silly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I was assuming remote roles. Living in China would be too dangerous.

[–] RubberElectrons 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

China currently has a massive problem with youth unemployment and this is their plan?

[–] Coreidan 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why not do this to shitty US companies too? It's all the same.

[–] Coreidan 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[–] IsThisAnAI -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Lololol yes, there is going to be an Exodus of 250k + stock salary techies leaving for China 👌👍🤣

.ee enough said.