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Haha, that's like saying a Military Boarding School for Troubled Teens will solve its Baseball Team Player shortage with a newspaper ad. Who wants to move to C

Haha, that's like saying a Military Boarding School for Troubled Teens will solve its Baseball Team Player shortage with a newspaper ad. Who wants to move to China? China has less than .01% of its population comprised of immigrants. They do not treat immigrants all that well. Mandarin is hard and very little English is spoken outside of the Entertainment and Academic circles. Immigrating to China versus immigrating to the US... Especially considering China is recruiting you to hopefully help them stave off economic and societal ruin...

kjkjadksj 2y ago
Well, people work in the persian gulf despite the issues with that. If there is work to be done in china and an avenue for low skilled laborers to get there, that’s where they will go as simple as that. If you haven’t noticed the change in the wind over the past week, its not exactly looking great to bank on coming to the US looking for work.
- NemoNobody 2y ago
  I understand. But... what If you actually can get a Green Card into the US tho and actually immigrate and become a citizen to work at a stable position at say a Tech Company with high income, good work life balance. Would something like that be appealing to a slice of the Global Population?? They can be from anywhere but they gotta kno coding, or AI or be an Engineer - this is the new "Give me your tired, hungry and poor" Now the US will increasingly only take the best and brightest but any and all of them.
  - tokioyoyo 2y ago
    Best and brightest don’t contribute to raw numbers. Also, even US issues more low-skilled visas than high skilled visas. Number of H-2A/B visas issues per year is like the double of H-1B. Former doesn’t have a pathway to permanent residency though. Anyways, my point is, when governments become desperate, they will change their laws, needs and wants. It has been done before, and will be done in the future.
  - kjkjadksj 2y ago
    I don’t think the people building skyscrapers in the middle east and the people hoping for h1b in a tech company are the same sort of people at all in this case. Consider also how China has been making literal inroads into Africa the past few decades. There is a pool of low skilled labor that wouldn’t mind a little higher pay and a lot more stability and security to go along with that. There are still warlords destabilizing nations in this part of the world. Plenty want out.

kjkjadksj 2y ago

Well, people work in the persian gulf despite the issues with that. If there is work to be done in china and an avenue for low skilled laborers to get there, that’s where they will go as simple as that. If you haven’t noticed the change in the wind over the past week, its not exactly looking great to bank on coming to the US looking for work.

NemoNobody 2y ago
I understand. But... what If you actually can get a Green Card into the US tho and actually immigrate and become a citizen to work at a stable position at say a Tech Company with high income, good work life balance. Would something like that be appealing to a slice of the Global Population?? They can be from anywhere but they gotta kno coding, or AI or be an Engineer - this is the new "Give me your tired, hungry and poor" Now the US will increasingly only take the best and brightest but any and all of them.
- tokioyoyo 2y ago
  Best and brightest don’t contribute to raw numbers. Also, even US issues more low-skilled visas than high skilled visas. Number of H-2A/B visas issues per year is like the double of H-1B. Former doesn’t have a pathway to permanent residency though. Anyways, my point is, when governments become desperate, they will change their laws, needs and wants. It has been done before, and will be done in the future.
- kjkjadksj 2y ago
  I don’t think the people building skyscrapers in the middle east and the people hoping for h1b in a tech company are the same sort of people at all in this case. Consider also how China has been making literal inroads into Africa the past few decades. There is a pool of low skilled labor that wouldn’t mind a little higher pay and a lot more stability and security to go along with that. There are still warlords destabilizing nations in this part of the world. Plenty want out.