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In recent years, policymakers, corporate executives, decision makers, and tech giants across the Western world have embraced what they proudly call the “global talent” and “change” agenda. These phrases are marketed as modern, progressive strategies, promising innovation, diversity, and transformation. Yet behind the polished language lies a far more troubling reality: a recruitment model that often prioritises cost-cutting over competence, and profit over long-term societal wellbeing. Under the guise of seeking global talent, many organisations have increasingly imported low-cost labour from abroad, driven primarily by the desire to pay extremely low salaries. Too often, the workers hired through these channels are either unable or unwilling to deliver the level of quality required. As a result, vital services and industries that once held high standards are now struggling to maintain the level of excellence that the Western world was built upon. Corporate decision makers are playing ...

Over the past several years, people have increasingly begun making unnecessary comparisons between their professions, competing with one another to determine whose work is more important, who deserves higher financial compensation, who should be allowed to work from home, and who should receive priority in various services. It is unclear who initiated this debate or why it became so widespread. In my view, every profession has its own significance, and no line of work should be considered less valuable than another. However, as this debate unfolded, I started to question who might be fueling it and which profession might be acting with the most harmful intentions. Based on my personal experiences over the years, I have observed that the digital and IT sector is often perceived as one of the most corrupt, greedy, classless, and mean-spirited fields today. Some individuals in this sector appear to contribute to chaos by hacking into people’s electronic devices, recording private conversa...