Thank you, I appreciate it! Part of the problem is that the media loves writing outrage stories. Training your own replacements is a perfect story for that. A

Thank you, I appreciate it! Part of the problem is that the media loves writing outrage stories. Training your own replacements is a perfect story for that. A journalist will write that story. Every. Single. Time. Take the story "this 40 person team with 3 H1-B employees, is now a 400 person team". Each of those H1-B employees created 10 jobs + some extra jobs at other companies. This (roughly) has happened to me twice, there will never be a news article about that. The original bit was just a plea to not use the intuition we get from news stories, and look to economists instead. This kind of thread attracts people who are very easily influenced by outrageous media stories like that. They are very confused. It seems so obvious to them that we could just stop immigration and stop bad things from happening. They are super angry that no one is doing anything to solve this obvious problem. What they don't understand is that really no one is fixing it because when you look closely it's not a problem at all. HN can be a place were people think about real hard problems and talk about how to solve them, I hope it can be more like that. (This is a fake problem.) The world needs people who face up to reality and try to improve it. Your coworkers, company, customers, friends, and family are all greatly improved by your work and presence. Long term I hope that wins out.