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[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 25 points 8 hours 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.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

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

If not...

3x my salary you say?

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 42 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours 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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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 46 points 12 hours 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@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

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

[–] Knuk@lemmy.world 20 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours 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.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours 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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 10 hours 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

[–] JoShmoe@ani.social 1 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours 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.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours 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.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 2 points 8 hours 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@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours 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.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 3 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 8 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world -4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

The post is from .ee. it's not based in any reality. At best China might steal a few people from EU tech like Germany which is paid very little compared to the states. Comparing US tech and EU tech is foolish. The EU already knows it's in last place on a world technology scale.

Even in a podunk 300 person company you'll pretty consistently make 40-60k more than EU peers.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm confused because this is from the WSJ not a specific lemmy instance.

[–] teejay@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah but once it gets posted to an .ee, it becomes fake. You'd know that if all of the senior tech workers in your brain hadn't already left for high paying Chinese jobs.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

It's such a weird statement for them to make (twice). I could see questioning if it was from hexbear or maybe lemmy.ml, but WTF has lemmy.ee done to anyone to garner a reputation? I have an account there, too, and it's pretty chill from what I've seen.

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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

.ee enough said.