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I don't think so many people would disagree with you i.e. Hire the best person for the job irrespective of where they come from. However that's not what is happ

I don't think so many people would disagree with you i.e. Hire the best person for the job irrespective of where they come from. However that's not what is happening with many of the H1B visas. Here cheaper foreign workers irrespective of skill are being recruited instead of more expensive local workers. With your global outlook how do you solve this problem? Or do you just let it be and let the cheaper workers depress the wages of the local workers, thereby making the local workers struggle financially and bringing unhappiness to many ?

piyush_soni 10y ago
>> that's not what is happening with many of the H1B visas That looks like a speculation, and a justification that a less skillful local worker might want to use. There are all kinds of H-1B Visa holders out there. More, equally, or less skilled compared to the local workers - but they are invariably less expensive than their local counterparts with same skillset. That's why companies are using them. Low quality software has a cost associated to it as well in the long run, so we can safely assume that the companies are deciding what's financially best for them. It's equivalent to competition in any market. Same argument is used by the less developed nations when an American multinational company begins their business there and kills all small local players in the market. Then these local companies bring their fake nationalism/patriotism in picture, but with globalization it's bound to happen and whining about it is not going to help.
- planetjones 10y ago
  We can assume that companies are deciding what's financially best for them, but not what is best for the country they have a social responsibility to. Look at some of the monumental IT failures we have seen recently and will see in the future (some UK banks for example). And with globalisation it's not bound to happen anymore because people are finding a voice. Do you think trump or brexit would have happened if people thought globalisation was working for them. There's more than low income people supporting these 'movements'. And your argument for full globalisation doesn't work for me. Should we send all manufacturing to a country in the Far East with questionable labour laws and regulations. I don't feel comfortable with that. Certainly not the level playing field you think it is.

piyush_soni 10y ago

>> that's not what is happening with many of the H1B visas That looks like a speculation, and a justification that a less skillful local worker might want to use. There are all kinds of H-1B Visa holders out there. More, equally, or less skilled compared to the local workers - but they are invariably less expensive than their local counterparts with same skillset. That's why companies are using them. Low quality software has a cost associated to it as well in the long run, so we can safely assume that the companies are deciding what's financially best for them. It's equivalent to competition in any market. Same argument is used by the less developed nations when an American multinational company begins their business there and kills all small local players in the market. Then these local companies bring their fake nationalism/patriotism in picture, but with globalization it's bound to happen and whining about it is not going to help.

planetjones 10y ago
We can assume that companies are deciding what's financially best for them, but not what is best for the country they have a social responsibility to. Look at some of the monumental IT failures we have seen recently and will see in the future (some UK banks for example). And with globalisation it's not bound to happen anymore because people are finding a voice. Do you think trump or brexit would have happened if people thought globalisation was working for them. There's more than low income people supporting these 'movements'. And your argument for full globalisation doesn't work for me. Should we send all manufacturing to a country in the Far East with questionable labour laws and regulations. I don't feel comfortable with that. Certainly not the level playing field you think it is.