I work for a fairly large 20,000+ mostly non IT consulting firm that has a solid reputation for getting things done. Most programmers make on the lower end of ~60-110k and code quality tends to sit just above terrible. However, what works for us is simply focusing on solving problems not meeting specks which is the antithesis of the factory model.
Granted, if they knew who to higher and what problems they needed to solve they would get by at 1/3 of our what we charge. But, most people and organisations are unbelievably incompetent.
PS: As to immigration a lot of the work done by immigrants would simply disappear without immigrant labor because it's just not worth minimum wage and or could just as easily be done outside the country. However, when it comes to the upper ends of the work force we are far better off with them than without. Don't forget Sergey Brin was born in Russia and I don't think we would be better off without Google.
>As to immigration a lot of the work done by immigrants would simply disappear without immigrant labor because it's just not worth minimum wage and or could just as easily be done outside the country.
But a lot more of it would still need to be done, and people would get paid enough that going off public assistance made sense.
Also, don't conflate illegal immigrants with legal immigrants. Sergey Brin didn't slip over the border with a sixth grade education and no ability to speak English. What we lack is jobs for people on the left half of the bell curve. There's plenty of room on the right half.
Granted, if they knew who to higher and what problems they needed to solve they would get by at 1/3 of our what we charge. But, most people and organisations are unbelievably incompetent.
PS: As to immigration a lot of the work done by immigrants would simply disappear without immigrant labor because it's just not worth minimum wage and or could just as easily be done outside the country. However, when it comes to the upper ends of the work force we are far better off with them than without. Don't forget Sergey Brin was born in Russia and I don't think we would be better off without Google.