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There are at least four stakeholders in this situation: 1. The American company that wants to save money 2. The Middleman (e.g. Wipro etc) that wants to mak
by ScalaFan 10y ago
There are at least four stakeholders in this situation:
1. The American company that wants to save money
2. The Middleman (e.g. Wipro etc) that wants to make money on the wage arbitrage
3. The foreign worker on the H1B
4. The American citizen that doesn't want to be replaced by the foreign worker
I'm all for cutting out (2) and making it easier for the foreign worker (provided they have the skills) to become an American and not beholden to (2). However, I don't like the American companies saving money on the backs of American employees losing their jobs. How to balance everything is the tough question.
- NotSammyHagar 10y agoYes, #4 is the first problem to handle. I have this idea there's at least a dual world here. (a) IT workers that get replaced by H1Bs and are often asked to train their replacements (more operations and putting things together), (b) big software co that writes handmade software, like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, a startup. It's category (a) where people lose jobs and can't find them, because they are more easily replaced? It's category (a) that needs protection, for cateagory (b) we need way more workers. I just heard today that seattle has 11,000 open software jobs. 11k is a lot of jobs.
- umanwizard 10y agoA lot of people don't understand this concept. People even apply it on a more local level, like "why don't Amazon and MS hire more UW grads instead of bringing in transplants from all over the country?" Amazon could hire 50% of UW CS grads and MS the other 50% and it wouldn't be enough to fill their needs.