HobbitFoot

I would put it like this.

People on Lemmy would rather be right than affect change which would be in line with their beliefs.

Yeah, I wouldn’t consider this a sign of recession. Instead, it is the confluence of various structural changes in the industry.

1. Because the industry was forced to work in a distributed manner, it has removed the location premium in a lot of salaries. Companies are firing high cost of living areas and hiring in lower cost of living areas.

2. Outside of cost of living, total supply for developers has increased significantly.

3. The return on investment for software development has either dropped or are starting to be included in more decisions. This is leading to development budgets getting slashed.

It would be to be per year to match Denmark’s contribution and I don’t believe anyone would trust to pay his debts.

Well, if you don’t need programmers to work in place place at the corporate headquarters, you can hire them anywhere.

My guess is that Japan and East Asia are treating this a lot different compared to Europe and North America.

For East Asian allies, the USA is pivoting from the full world to focus more on the Pacific Ocean, so a post Trump USA would still be involved in the region. Also, unlike Europe, East Asian allied countries can’t outspend their strategic rival by themselves.

So, they’ll spend a little to keep Trump happy in order to keep the USA involved in East Asia while they wait out Trump.

It is likely that the EU is dropping bourbon taxes because US barrels are very important to wineries and distilleries in the EU.

Also, many wine regions in the USA are in liberal states, so this could be the EU trying to target their tarrifs.

I feel like part of the problem is that management wants staff that can do a wide range of tasks when it ends up creating a staff that can’t specialize in a small group of tasks.

I’ve seen plenty of times where people can operate well as a cog on a big machine, but fall apart when they have to work in roles that require a variety of skillsets. Larger engineering companies can typically create enough work for people to specialize in smaller tasks than smaller engineering companies.