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Anything that kills US-based H1B sweatshops and de-facto indentured servitude is a good thing in my book. And I say this as a former H1B. Either use it properly
by m0zg 6y ago
Anything that kills US-based H1B sweatshops and de-facto indentured servitude is a good thing in my book. And I say this as a former H1B. Either use it properly (for highly skilled immigration only), or shut it down entirely. You don't get to first abuse the system and then tell me what to think about it.
- qtplatypus 6y agoShutting it down would shift more of that to offshore sweatshops.
- hiram112 6y agoPersonally, as an American who has worked in India and the US for one of the biggest abusers of H1Bs, I'm willing to take that risk. I dare these armies of Fortune 500 executives and managers to send all their indentured H1Bs back to India and China. I'm sure they'll enjoy explaining why they and their large salaries and bonuses are essential, when they have 0 actual employees in the same country reporting to them. They would have offshored things already if they could do so, and felt it wouldn't risk their own fiefdoms. Or if they are needed, they can move themselves and their families to Bangalore. Globalization is great, or so we plebs have been hearing from the management class for so long, it's time for them to experience it themselves.
- sg47 6y agoAs someone who benefited from it, will you go back to your home country? If not, you shouldn't ask for it to be scrapped.
- m0zg 6y agoI think you need to re-read what I wrote. I'm in favor of H1B program for _highly skilled_ immigrants. That is, people with significant expertise, unavailable in necessary quantities in the US. I was one of such people myself. I am, on the other hand, categorically against displacing US fresh grads (especially US women and minorities) with foreign fresh grads unless they demonstrably are genius material. I have very little sympathy towards trillion+ dollar companies with 35-40% profit margins when they tell me they can't fill their entry level positions with US grads, especially now, when millions of people are laid off.
- belltaco 6y agoThis is r/iamverysmart material
- SomeoneFromCA 6y agoReally? Is it insult? May be you are such a material, with your snide comment?
- sg47 6y agoSo you feel that you are genius material?
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- m0zg 6y ago"So" followed by mind reading is not a good way to have a conversation.
- sg47 6y ago"And I say this as a former H1B." "unless they demonstrably are genius material." Just taking two of your sentences and trying to understand if you are genius material or were when you got your H1-B.