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Nailed it. Couldn’t take the article seriously in its omission of these facts. I believe I read that immigration policies are having a negative effect of removi
by didon15 5y ago
Nailed it. Couldn’t take the article seriously in its omission of these facts. I believe I read that immigration policies are having a negative effect of removing around 1.5m workers from the force.
Not just in low income jobs, either. I’ve been unable to hire quite a few folks in high tech because of our VISA process issues. Such a fucking mess.
This labor shortage feels like it could have been easily avoided with some common sense govt regulation, but America has gone totally off the deep end there.
- ModernMech 5y agoI used to do credential evaluation for foreign tech workers looking to work here. I mean, I still do but the applications have dried up, and it actually started before the pandemic due to the previous administration. Before I would do maybe a dozen a month. Now I’m lucky to get 1 a quarter. Some of my family are very anti immigrant and glad to hear this. But I’m not sure they realize how much work is getting done in the US due to foreign labor. Combine declining immigration, declining birth rates, and a system predicated on uninterrupted, unending growth and this is setting up a big issue.
- aylmao 5y agoAs an immigrant myself it seemed wild that I could work in the USA, and send money back to my country. It felt like a capital drain problem the USA blindsided on. Then I realized the economic gain from labour made the whole deal very worth it for the USA. The whole idea of a workforce is that it produces more value than it costs. Although I could take the money, that generated value was staying in the USA [1]. Especially for high-skilled industries where the bottleneck to growth might be hiring, this was very much worth it for them. [1]: This plus, of course, the chunk of capital the USA keeps as taxes.