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Well, I suppose I'm just massively misunderstanding your objection here. It seems that we share the goal of increased immigration of professionals and enabling
by jbooth 17y ago
Well, I suppose I'm just massively misunderstanding your objection here.
It seems that we share the goal of increased immigration of professionals and enabling them to succeed in america, shared prosperity and all of that..
This bill, to me, is incremental progress towards that goal but flawed on some specifics.. do you agree?
Is your opposition a case of "not good enough and hold out for better"? The specifics about VCs controlling the visa are the deal-breaker for you? How is that so much worse than H-1B where the employer controls the visa?
Honest questions, I really don't understand the argument.
- tptacek 17y agoThere are two specifics to this bill that I object to. The first is giving venture capitalists this role in public policy. The second is carving out visas for a form of entrepreneurship modeled on VC-funded tech startups. If a business creates jobs, I don't see how it's relevant to public policy that it hits a $1MM revenue threshold or (even more weirdly) a $1MM capital investment requirement.
- jbooth 17y agoWell, they need to have some sort of criteria to prevent gaming the system. I think we'd both agree that you can't open the floodgates by investing $1 each in 50 paper businesses in order to get 50 visas.