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Do you support the status quo of millions of H1Bs? Those people I doubt can or will take such a principled stance, making collective action by tech workers imp
by georgeburdell 23d ago
Do you support the status quo of millions of H1Bs? Those people I doubt can or will take such a principled stance, making collective action by tech workers impossible.
- wartywhoa23 23d agoThat's exactly why they are imported in such huge numbers.
- tombert 23d agoWouldn't this be an argument for people who can take principled stances to do so?
- cyanydeez 23d agothat they'll be replaced by H1Bs?
- dietr1ch 23d agoYou can comfortably go back to your home country. It might feel that you wasted your time in the US, but it was hard to foresee Trump ruining the US so fast and there's little to do about it as an immigrant.
- Dig1t 23d agoAbsolutely, there’s a reason as well why the VC’s funding these defense tech startups are so pro H1B. It guarantees them a compliant workforce who can’t easily quit, ask for higher wages, or complain about things like genocide.
- __MatrixMan__ 23d agoThis is why H1B needs to be a relatively fast path to citizenship. Without that, the bosses will continue to behave badly.
- klausa 22d agoWhy do people always assume that people on H1Bs _want_ a citizenship? There's tons of things you can do to make people on visas more empowered to push back at work without them become citizens; and in many cases cutting ties to their original countries.
- __MatrixMan__ 22d agoWhen you're drafting policy, you get to be choosy about who you want in your country. I think that's more or less standard practice. We should want people who want to stay here long term, because then they have a stake, an incentive to stand up to bosses that want to wreck the place. As sympathetic as I am to the desires of somebody who wants to come for a while and then leave, I think a better policy would deprioritize such candidates.