> However, there's nothing like being allowed to quit your job and take a new one to ensure that you really are being compensated properly for your skills. I'd

> However, there's nothing like being allowed to quit your job and take a new one to ensure that you really are being compensated properly for your skills. I'd take that over various regulations meant to "protect" me any day of the week. Completely agreed. Personally, I used to be on an H1B and I know how stressful it can be when you realize that things out of your control can suddenly mean that you have to either scramble around looking for a job (and you can't spend the necessary time to do the due diligence to ensure that that job is what you want to do) or decide how you are going to leave friends and the home you have started building for yourself here. To me, this is the problem that I don't see people trying to solve. The article calls an H1B an indentured servant and I am not sure I disagree. There are two extremes: One is stapling a green card to every graduate degree and the other is making it easier to acquire an H1B without making it reforming the H1B considering worker rights. I can only hope the middle ground they will eventually take between these two approaches doesn't fuck it up completely.