Just the facts: - Rules like these are designed to prevent wage deflation in-situ work in the US. - SV engineers push for remote-first or remote-friendly work

Just the facts: - Rules like these are designed to prevent wage deflation in-situ work in the US. - SV engineers push for remote-first or remote-friendly workplaces. - There is an enormous pool of talent overseas willing to relocate to the US for ~50% of an american worker, and obviously much less than that if they work remote. Connect the dots and it's obvious that a few things will happen. 1. The H1-B jobs won't be replaced with American workers. They will be replaced with remote workers that earn even less. 2. This wage deflation will eventually percolate to us "low skilled" engineers. (Low-skilled ~meaning a RoR pipe fitter). 3. The remote work cat is out of the bag, so we'll finally see some traction in efforts to unionize software developers at Big Co. The unions will obviously restrict hiring foreign workers. 4. The effects of unionizing at BigCo on the startup ecosystem are REALLY hard to predict. It's a fun thought experiment. Overall, this will be a net loss for humanity as a whole, but could maybe be short-term good for SV/american tech workers.