A single good programmer can do the work of an entire team of bad programmers. There is too much salary equity between good and bad programmers.
H1-Bs should generally be earning no more than $50K salary for the quality and volume of work they do. The "cost of ownership" for visa workers is through the roof once you consider maintenance costs from lack of design knowledge. Clearly this is not being economically driven and there is a hidden planet influencing this market.
It's funny, because if they had actually engaged in legitimate journalism and paid attention to emergent technologies, they'd know that automated news writing/publishing is going to replace them sooner than they realize. While that may not be the reason they were fired here exactly, but it's going to be a rather common story in the near future. Only the most talented journalists and propagandists will retain their jobs within a decade to provide a "human touch" to generated output.
They only have themselves to blame because by being so simple and repetitive with their pieces, a bunch of algorithms could be trained from that data, and do a better job serving as propagandists almost right now. They were making themselves redundant with every article they write.
If any of them are lurking here, my best advice is to make yourself known as someone comprehensive and actually invest time in understanding every facet of journalism, as well as data science and machine learning. If you are capable of transcribing your profession to structuring data sets and algorithms, your career prospects will last a lot longer. In other words, learn to AI, not just code.
these downscale white comunities deserve to die
economically they are negative assets
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What is funny is that a lot of the journos getting shitcanned have no real journalism training. You can tell be reading their work. They got degrees in shit more worthless than journalism, and I should know because I have journalism training.
Advice: journalism in the traditional form is a dying medium.