This is a global economy, in which the world has gotten a lot smaller and continues to get a lot smaller, because not only is travel to all points all over the world, both relatively inexpensive while also being readily available, in recent years too, the world has become totally interconnected via the internet with all of its assorted bells and whistles. The international language of business is English, of which those that have a good grasp of English, along with the required STEM skills, have given themselves a meaningful leg up on those that have difficulty comprehending or utilizing English. The two most populated countries in the world today, are China and India. India, having formerly been treated as a colony of Great Britain, but seemingly holding a fairly benign attitude towards Great Britain as well as western civilization, is a country on the rise, in which its massive population total of 1.19 billion people, as well as the fact that around 40% of that total is below the age of 20, indicates that in order to continue to economically grow, India must somehow employ millions. Further to the point, a significant portion of Indians are competent in speaking English, as well as many of those same having strong skills in STEM capabilities, in which, Indians have an advanced public post-secondary educational system known as the Indian Institutes of Technology (ITT) of which there are currently twenty-three of these ITTs spread out through India, which have stringent admission policies, and graduate extremely competent students of technology.
This means that not only does India have degreed hi-tech engineers that can easily hold their own against their American counterparts, but they also are able to communicate well in English, and because the cost of living is more than 60% cheaper in India than in America, as well as their corresponding labor price-point being substantially cheaper than America, all this being indicative that their hi-tech engineers are bargains in comparison to AmericansAll of this, in combination with the internet means that very high paying hi-tech jobs that currently employ thousands upon thousands in America, are available, for the most part, or in conjunction to, in India, as well as other foreign countries.
As the well educated hi-tech world in America is essentially without a union, and seems to pride itself on not needing to ever be unionized, many thousands of jobs that could be conducted here in America, have already been outsourced, perhaps argued internally and somewhat mendaciously, that there aren't enough competent STEM graduates in America, so the work had to be outsourced, anyway. The truth of the matter is, the globalization of hi-tech, and the greed and competition of hi-tech companies, have driven them to save money or make money, wherever that they can. The rather easy decision has been to outsource jobs, for if you can utilize hi-tech workers in a given location, in which these workers are significantly cheaper in price, as well as being able to perform the work needed at a competent level, than you are going to do this, again and again and again.
The bottom line is that educated hi-tech workers in America, cannot compete against Indian educated hi-tech workers that reside and work in India, because the cost of employing those hi-tech workers in India is appreciably cheaper; this means, that hi-tech workers in America, educated ones, very competent ones, will, for a certainty, find less opportunity going forward, more fierce competition internally, as well as hitting their head against an unexpected salary ceiling again and again and again