Posted on 11/19/2018 10:13:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
From an office suite on the 26th floor of the iconic Frost Bank Tower in Austin, Texas, a little-known recruiting firm called Crossover is searching the globe for software engineers. Crossover is looking for anyone who can commit to a 40- or 50-hour workweek, but it has no interest in full-time employees. It wants contract workers who are willing to toil from their homes or even in local cafes.
“The best people in the world aren’t in your Zip code,” says Andy Tryba, chief executive of Crossover, in a promotional YouTube video. Which, Tryba emphasizes, also means you don’t have to pay them like they are your neighbors. “The world is going to a cloud wage.”
Tryba’s video has 61,717 views, but he is no random YouTube proselytizer. He worked in sales at Intel for 14 years before serving in the White House as an advisor to President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Since 2014, Tryba has been the right-hand man of Joe Liemandt, one of the most mysterious and innovative figures in technology.
In the 1990s Liemandt was the golden boy of enterprise software, a 30 Under 30 wunderkind before there was a Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Like Bill Gates before him, he dropped out of college, in his case Stanford, to start a company, Trilogy, and build his fortune. In 1996, at the age of 27, he made the cover of Forbes, and a few months later he appeared as the youngest self-made member of The Forbes 400, with a $500 million net worth....
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The only way to become a billionaire is to use, exploit,and abuse people.
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Provide a service or product that people are willing (not forced) to pay for that is profitable to you.
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I did not read the part where they are holding a gun to anybody's head to make it happen.
Our SIL works at Intel. He makes a lot of money but it’s a high paid sweat shop. He’s desperate to get away from it.
there should be a VERY LARGE federal head tax on all foreign workers of U.S. companies ... tax based on average salary of U.S. citizens in equivalent jobs IN THE U.S. ,..
Did you ever notice that programmers who work for large outfits have always been getting laid off as soon as the big release was done? And how people who work in the field strongly support purges of conservatives both in their own ranks at in management? Even in open source?
The economy was held low by the Democrat party. This an foreign invasion artificially suppressed wages. People need food and housing to survive. But do to poor economy and cheap foreign invading laborers individuals could not get a fair wage.
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