> You are missing the point. Bill isn't looking for coders, cheap or
> otherwise, here - he has plenty of them across the planet. He is
> looking for "exceptional talent" to be based in the US (hence the visa
> issue), and that doesn't come cheap, wherever it may come from. As a
> matter of fact, he has in the same breath asked Capitol Hill to beef
> up America's education infrastructure so that more such "talent" is
> produced natively. If you read his statement carefully, the issue for
> him is flexibility in planning, not cost. Cost is never the only
> driver of business decisions, contrary to the popular misconception
> among large sections of the Left.
>
> Sujeet
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Exactly. Gates wants Einsteins from a culture of Homer Simpsons. Cognitive scarcity is very real in the USA re the issue of massive underinvestment in R&D. His other worry, that he shared with the WA state congressional delegation in DC was peak oil; he'd just finished "Hubbert's Peak"
Ian -- "Reason demands belief in infinitely many contradictions" [Roy Sorenson]