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I don’t think India and China are the threat to US software jobs. It’s Latin America: same timezone(s); shorter/easier flights (because of the timezones as well as the distance) with easier visa requirements; far greater cultural familiarity and/or similarity (in both directions); lots of people who speak excellent English (in Latin America) and a fair few people who speak Spanish now in the US; less fear of IP theft; no trade war.

Somewhat minus the timezone, a lot of these things apply to the Philippines, too.



Latin America is less of a threat simply because of population size. All of Latin America combined is half the size of just India or just China individually.


You also have to imagine that India and China have increasing quality of life, more demand for their own software and (eventually) higher salaries.




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