Western IT specialist: forget about the ultimate advantage of your IT education. Forget about the experience you collect in suffisticated projects. Don't convince yourself to have a much higher skill set than the cheaper eastern workers. It's all wrong.
Through the hardest price pressure ever, through out-tasking and near-shoring to the european east, through the modern IT professors there who used to work here in the western europe for years, through the flood of information and documentation available on the web, through many (open source) projects initiated and continued by the eastern specialists, and through a huge technology affinity as well as historical advance in general technology (space, army etc.), through tons of green card initiatives all over the world, through all that you cannot push this fact to the back of your mind anymore: eastern IT specialists are not worse. They just might earn less money.
But technology will go more and more (back) to the east. I'm pretty sure it will. It just took some time to shake off the rigidity of the post-Soviet phase. Now it's definitely over, and the pace with which the eastern IT specialists will mix up the technological world will sure be amazing.
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