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Could tariffs make hiring foreign workers less profitable thereby ensuring domestic talent gets hired at a fair wage?
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Tariffs don't work for service roles.
Anything where the output of the job isn't physical, e.g. writing code, designing something, answering a phone, is super hard to track.
This is actually why the US seems to be running a trade deficit with so many countries. Companies like Google, Meta and Amazon take money from all over the world in exchange for services like advertising, and then it eventually gets spent on goods from other countries.
Yea, if I ever saw 100k euros as a dev, I'd shit my pants from happiness. Best I ever got was ~60k dollars as a senior + teamlead in an american company which was utter hell to work at.
All else aside, "Boglex" has gotta be one of the ugliest names I've ever heard... Maybe it's clever in German and I'm just too uncultured to get it?
The company Boglex is Romanian. Their CEO's name is Romanian. He's shilling for senior Romanian engineers.
I wouldn't be surprised if this dude is the "CEO" of a small company where he is making posts on linkedin while an assistant connects all senior Romanian engineers and contracts them to German companies. All while extracting money from both sides.
No it is also ugly in German.
So assuming a 50% lower salary as advertised, that means these guys only placed 50xGerman salary Developer in 2024. So assuming a high commission of 20% of an annual salary, those guys made a total money of 10 Developer salaries in 2024. More realistically we are looking at something between 5-10 salaries. According to their linkedin they have 51-200 employees, which probably includes the 100 Devs they rented out. So their Germany business is inefficient and underdeveloped.
They also advertise that they do some programming themselves and are active on other markets. Still it seems dubious that they know much about the German market and could offer people that are pulling their weight.
It's so shameless innit? He puts on the veneer of caring about quality, but then gives up the game by admitting the real goal is the cheapest labor possible coughslaverycough. Why stop at Romania if you want cheap labor? Just outsource it all to India or Nigeria, we all know you would do it in a heartbeat if your precious quarterly profits were on the line.
Edit: didn't realize the guy was Romanian so at least the shilling makes more sense, but I still get the feeling he's not doing his employees any favors.
Damn these pesky worker rights and strong unions meaning I can't exploit local engineers for less than their skills are worth