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Why is it OK to protect American IT jobs with limited (or expensive) H-1Bs, but it's Ok to replace commerical drivers with autonomous vehicles? Why is one kind
by cmurf 10y ago
Why is it OK to protect American IT jobs with limited (or expensive) H-1Bs, but it's Ok to replace commerical drivers with autonomous vehicles? Why is one kind of protectionism Ok and the other overdue for being squashed?
- shiftpgdn 10y agoOne doesn't involve a flood of immigrants basically working as slaves.
- Hondor 10y agoPeople don't care about immigrants working like slaves because that's what they'll be doing in their own country anyway.
- falsestprophet 10y agoDo you really not see a distinction between allowing sewing machines and allowing unlimited immigration of sewers?
- riffic 10y agoCalling anyone a "sewer" is not appropriate. I assume the words you're looking for are either 'tailor' or 'seamstress'.
- powera 10y agoThis whole comment thread is absurd and unreasonable.
- falsestprophet 10y agosewer: a person or thing that sews. 1350-1400; Middle English; see sew pronounced soh-er, not soo-er as in sewer: an artificial conduit, usually underground, for carrying off waste water and refuse, as in a town or city. 1375-1425; late Middle English suer (e) < dialectal Old French se (u) wiere overflow channel http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sewer http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sewer
- khuey 10y agoBecause regulating who comes into the country is generally seen as the government's job, but regulating what labor-saving technology is used is generally not.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoAnd government can always tax automation to provide an income to those who are redundant if other jobs are not available.
- erikpukinskis 10y agoBecause it's not actually about protecting jobs, it's about white supremacy.
- cheriot 10y agoI've seen a lot of white truck drivers if it makes you feel better. I'm even related to one.
- Hondor 10y agoTechnology replacing jobs doesn't directly benefit outsiders. Foreign labor replacing local labor feels unfair because foreigners are outside of the local people's psychological tribe. That explains why people are happy to have children even though those children are bound to grow up and take old people's job, possibly forcing them into early retirement and poverty. At least the job is being taken by another member of the same in-group so it doesn't feel so painful.
- gaius 10y agoIt would be a fair question, if the H1B programme actually did protect US IT worker jobs but look at this list: http://www.epi.org/blog/top-10-h1b-guestworker-offshore-outsourcing/ http://www.epi.org/blog/top-10-h1b-guestworker-offshore-outs... The top 10 users of it are all "consulting" firms.