I was talking with a few folks about government programs to incentivize companies to open offices in their cities, and a frontier space here is pitching remote employees directly in a scalable fashion.
Like, how many software engineers getting hired would it take to get your mayor’s attention? A thousand? I think you can count up to a thousand with five to ten city employees, an ad campaign, a trivial tweak to income tax onboarding, and a one-off rebate of 2~5% their tax NPV.
I originally came to Japan under the auspices of the JET program, which paid me a salary for three years, and I felt really guilty at the time for my perceived gap in effectiveness relative to the size of that subsidy.
In hindsight, that may be the best ROI on an ISA from 2004.
In hindsight, that may be the best ROI on an ISA from 2004.
