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Let me ask a few follow up questions: 1. What do you think it is? 2. Do you think this is unique to the Indian culture, or do you do you think it's shared by
by steego 11y ago
Let me ask a few follow up questions:
1. What do you think it is?
2. Do you think this is unique to the Indian culture, or do you do you think it's shared by other cultures, including your own?
3. What do you think about cultures that breed the type of businesses that take advantage of other groups of people for profit?
4. Compared to Indian wages, could an Indian business owner could easily see themselves doing his fellow Indians a favor while making a profit?
Here's my point. Look before you leap before you turn this into a cultural or racist conversation, because it's a much bigger issue than that and it deserves to be looked at from a larger perspective.
My personal opinion is we need to overhaul to H1-B system to eliminate any leverage an H1-B employer has over their employee. If we want to eliminate the exploitation of immigrants, it's critical they share our freedoms to switch jobs. If we don't grant immigrants that freedom, we're just inviting an immigrant culture where immigrants will consistently earn less which will have the effect of suppressing wages overall.
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- iamleppert 11y agoI have no idea what the answers to your questions are. I'm simply stating what I have observed in my own experiences. I've never seen anyone exploit the H1B system for such personal gain except Indian people, and more often than not they are looking to their own people for their sources of exploitation. I'm just wondering why it isn't more common. Why don't we have Chinese or other asian cultures doing this? What is the source?
- petilon 11y agoPeople exploiting other people happens in all cultures. In this particular case it is H1B related, and it so happens that India is a good source of inexpensive English-speaking labor. This is because India is a former British colony, unlike China and other asian countries.
- steego 11y agoYou might actually be right that specifically exploiting the H1B system is statistically an Indian phenomenon, but the way you ask it makes it a huge distraction when talking about the larger issue. However, the way you asked it made it sound like you were suggesting Indians are the only ones exploiting their own people. I'd argue most cultures exploit their own in different ways. Personally, I don't think that's an important question. I think the bigger question is: How can we fix the laws and regulations so our government doesn't inadvertently create an incentive for employers to set up IT shops consisting of cheap immigrant labor tied to sponsoring employers? Can we solve that problem while encouraging the best and the brightest people to work here, earn good salaries, pay taxes and start businesses?