Never heard about this series in France. I discovered him through the jokes. I am 55

> [US] workers are (...) higher skilled

Looks like you have not done much work outside the US if this is what you believe

Source: having directly worked with people from about 60 countries for 30 years

There's definitely a more nuanced way to write that which would be far more accurate. I certainly have worked with fantastic workers from outside the US. There's nothing magical about living here that makes people better at their jobs. You are correct that I've never worked outside the US except for work trips.

Part of the dynamic is that with wages and costs here being high, the bar for acceptable is higher so there's a filter effect. Another part is that a lot of people emigrate and the costs associated means only the better people get to do so. If your international collaboration experience is from working in FAANG/whatevs or the best augmentation houses (e.g. Thoughtworks), you'd have very different experiences than are the common case. In that case you're not benefiting from financial arbitrage so much which is another relevant dynamic. That same dynamic means you're less likely to be outsourcing or nearshoring from other high cost of living places that tend to have better schools (although the US seems to be struggling on this). You could replace US with HCOL places and the statement would be improved. Further, those that are good who don't emigrate can demand wages on the global scale (even if adjusted for local COL) which means they aren't working offshore contracts unless they're early in their career and you got lucky (in which case their team isn't similarly great) or, again, you're working with one of the premium houses and outsourcing isn't a cost saving exercise. In the places where wages are strangely low (e.g the UK & some other HCOL parts of Europe) the industry draws a smaller proportion of the brightest minds because the premium is smaller.

So I believe your statement about your experience. I also think the general refutation of my sub-claim as distilled is correct. Yet the comment was in the context of outsourcing/nearshoring and implicitly about the median places, statistically speaking, looking to cut costs and exert downward pressure on wages. For those the local talent demanding the higher wages is higher skilled on top of having the meatspace/hand shaking advantage.

For the context: I worked for a US company in a very senior position in EMEA and APAC. I lived in several places. The company was huge and dynamic/innovative, until it was not anymore.

For two people with the same "work quality" let's say, one in France and one in the US and both wanted to work in a high-paced industry or startup -- the US is much, much better. From the perspective of the US person, hiring someone in France is a road of problems not because they are not good enough, but because they will be a bureaucratic burden.

For both US and France, hiring someone in India will be problematic because of major cultural differences, and given the size of the country, quality of work. There are very good Indian engineers, they are just much more difficult to find.

There is of course a lot of historical bias too, not to mention racism.

If you are in France today, it is economically better to hire someone from India, but the major differences in basically everything make it difficult. Hiring someone in Poland does not have this problem. The language would be the barrier, mostly (they would need to speak English, and our Frenglish is pitiful). So we hire for economic reasons, but the gap is closing quickly, especially for the top jobs (for the very top ones it is actually more interesting in Poland).

We could hire someone in the US but the salary structure is completely broken, and effectively we have people emigrating to the US (and sometimes coming back to France when they have a problem expecting that they will be taken care of, but that's another problem)

So yes, there are gaps between countries -- but not all countries.

Not to mention how adverse they are to foreign workforce

In France for instance a car is a mean of transport and people in average do not care about cars at all. This is why we have a lot of generic small sized cars, with bumps or scratches.

A company car is not a typical perk, as opposed to, say, Poland where it is an important element.

You mean instead of the war?

These are really two different costs, hardly comparable. And both useful (if it ends up with a true liberation of the Iranians)

This is a very different conclusion from the one in the scientific documentary "Idiocracy"

I just have one paper passport, the only passport that will be accepted abroad.

Exactly. I got that habit from LaTeX and like it because it brings us closer to real typography.

And I will still use them -- fully aware that some people will complain about AI and whatnot.

Ha. I was reading this and thought "euhhhh, I did not give all of that to verify my account". So I went to LinkedIn to check if I have the shield. I then saw

- that I just have "work email verified" and that there is a Persona thing I was not even aware of

- a post by Brian Krebs at the top of my feed, exactly on that topic: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bkrebs_if-you-are-thinking-ab...

> that I just have "work email verified" and that there is a Persona thing I was not even aware of

Good to know that work email verification doesn't involve Persona.

That seems like a reasonable middle ground. Work email is a much lighter ask than handing over government ID and biometrics.

Curious, does your verification status persist after you remove the work email (e.g., if you leave that employer)?

> Curious, does your verification status persist after you remove the work email (e.g., if you leave that employer)?

I guess so. To me this is a mini-identity check so LinkedIn probably assumes that if it was fine so far, it will stay that way later.

Yep, I clicked verify experimentally and all they wanted was my work email and a code they sent to it.

Of course, that works probably because my work has a linkedin account so they know what the official domain is for it.

I guess they'll spam that email but it's not like I care. I already receive spam offering me subcontracting services so I guess it's published somewhere.

I use OIDC in my home lab (with Authelia). It is very simple to work with it.

I do not understand what I am doing and trust the docs, but it has never been a particularly difficult setup.

> I do not understand what I am doing

I would argue that then you do not "have to work with them", you are merely using products built with them.

The article is answering a request for explanation of how it works, however. In other words, they do want to understand.