The Downgrading of the American Tech Worker

That is the stupidest thing I have heard all year - and that has quite a bit of competition. Because nobody is going to be grateful for you de-homogenizing work and adding requirements of artisanal knowledge, and removing capital from industry to a productive task. Because all of that translates to adding needless toil to the task, reducing productivity and making everyone poorer!

It utterly antithetical to the practice of engineering, productivity, making sense or making things better.

Get out of here and go worship Dis someplace else.

Yup. Good ol' Karl Marx called this process proletarianisation.

This will not work until unions deal with the reality of globalization, and push to form a worldwide union, which ensures compensation has no more than 2x difference based on one's country. This is the multiplier where people will not want to transfer work for cost vs skill level.

This is unpalatable to HCOL engineers, because their pay will significantly compress in this union to support the growth of compensation of similarly skilled LCOL regions/countries.

QED: Unions will not happen.