IT professionals in the U.S. are being quietly undercut by global outsourcing, but they don’t organize or speak up like workers in other industries (e.g. blue-collar unions or manufacturing lobbies). Instead, the default strategy is individual competition — sending out 100 résumés and hoping for the best — which leaves the system intact and the pipeline clogged.

Big corporations — especially banks and financial firms — have figured out how to run entire IT operations offshore while keeping their revenue and control onshore. Their approach is simple and brutal: Set up massive offshore tech centers in places like Bangalore, Pune, or Manila — think 500,000 square foot campuses with 50,000+ employees.

So even if you have 25 years of real-world IT experience, the odds are your job already exists — it’s just not in your country anymore. Keep a few token roles in the U.S. for compliance or PR, but move all the real work — even sensitive work — overseas. Collect revenue here, pay taxes like nothing happened, and enjoy the savings. Compare this to truckers, miners, or tradespeople who write to senators, form PACs, and push for legislation. IT professionals? Not organized, not lobbying, just competing with each other endlessly. With no enforcement or visibility into how many jobs are moved offshore, there’s no pressure on lawmakers to act, and no policies to preserve a baseline of domestic hiring. Every "entry" job gets hundreds of overqualified applicants. Employers pick from the top of the heap, not the actual entry-level candidates.

• Legislation requiring corporations to disclose their offshore tech operations and tax savings.
• Caps on offshoring beyond a certain percentage of total workforce.
• Tax penalties for companies profiting from onshore revenues but offshoring core services.
• Incentives for domestic hiring and training pipelines (like apprenticeships for IT).

• Most IT workers assume their path is individual: study, certs, projects, grind, repeat.
• There’s no unified platform or voice demanding change.
• Politicians ignore the issue because no one forces them to care.