Comment by mikert89
Comment by mikert89 4 days ago
Employers just hire experienced h1bs instead, they won’t leave after being trained, no reason to hire an American
Comment by mikert89 4 days ago
Employers just hire experienced h1bs instead, they won’t leave after being trained, no reason to hire an American
Why is tech high paying exactly? Maybe low supply of qualified labor? Maybe that can be solved with qualified immigration? We can call such a program H1B, for example, and it would benefit the American economy overall at the cost of slightly reducing compensation fir the already extremely highly paying tech jobs.
> Now do the tech industry
Do you have numbers? If you don’t, the appropriate baseline is population.
And Americans leave because employers will just replace them with offshoring and h1bs to save money. It's a self perpetuating cycle. Loyalty goes both ways. Employees finally realized that they should be treating employers like employers have always treated employees. That's capitalism.
Oh good, I was worried this thread wouldn't have any anti-immigrant sentiment.
Trump could cancel H1B but most likely he won't. If for no other reason than as a favour to his billionaire friends. They are more important than the popular idea of America first, American jobs etc. here Trump literally says we need H1B because we need talent, and USA doesn't have the talent. Not a good look for a supposedly America first president.. https://youtu.be/U2XUNKcKtx0?si=GOFyMGxqUIbyGD6T
There are ~700k h1bs out of ~157 million American jobs. So about 99.6% of jobs in America are held by Americans and 0.4% by h1bs.