For people that earn that kind of money, let alone in Poland, there are plenty of US candidates that would accept a fraction of that, so why are they not being replaced already?
Outsourcing is simply another form of competition: the answer is not to want to be protected as competitor but to bring to the table something that commands the price you want.
Apple doesn't sell the cheapest devices and they make a ton of money still.
They likely cannot do that so easily actually. As one simple example of many, they are probably only fluent in English, which is a showstopper for the kind of work I do which involves talking to stakeholders who most definitely are not going to speak that.
If you want to be a big earner you need to bring to the table a set of skill valuable enough to command that kind of money.
If they are successful they will find another opportunity. If they think they cannot find another opportunity because of outsourcing from Poland or whatever, they are wrong.
Seriously, the industry has been dealing with outsourcing to massively cheaper countries for decades now: everyone knows on paper the price cannot be beaten, but a lot of other characteristics most definitely can.
Outsourcing is not a form of competition, it is destroying your own country in order to enrich a couple of CEO's and shareholders, while people in your own country will be out of a job, making 3rd world countries rich and also being dependent on 3rd world countries (like what we saw with Covid-19).
And who in the hell is going to buy iPhone's in the USA when nobody will have a job in the future if everything is? It's why the USA market is the #1 market, people have a lot of money to spend (for now).
And for high-paying jobs which expats usually take in other countries, they speak English, including in Poland.
In Asia, they protect their local market too. India has a program called "Make in India" to force companies like Apple to make their products in India.
And looking at the bigger picture, thanks to companies like Apple, China is now a serious military threat thanks to all the money Apple has invested in China, who is now also indirectly supporting Russia.
And India might use nuclear weapons soon too on innocent civilians in Pakistan, which is indirectly paid by us.
Instead of money flowing out of the USA towards 3rd world countries, the money should stay within the USA and to American workers. In the end, the USA has a huge trade deficit and the USA is loosing money to pretty much everybody.
Soon, countries like Poland will be too expensive too for the CEO's and shareholders. I already heard that some companies like Meta and OpenAI are already starting to outsource to Africa.
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