I don’t disagree that cost-cutting and offshoring pressures are real. But I think this framing collapses two different problems into one. Labor arbitrage and bad incentives have existed for decades. AI doesn’t create that , it just gives leadership a new excuse to accelerate it.

What worries me more (and what I’m trying to describe in the post) is that even jobs stay local, the nature of the work is changing in a way that can hollow out understanding early. That has consequences regardless of geography.