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Dude, chill. GP wasn't saying that visas aren't used for labor arbitrage. He was just saying the data point that you pulled doesn't demonstrate it as directly
by lmkg 13y ago
Dude, chill.
GP wasn't saying that visas aren't used for labor arbitrage. He was just saying the data point that you pulled doesn't demonstrate it as directly as you made it seem. I, for one, don't disagree with anything that you wrote. But, it doesn't actually address the content+context of the post you were replying to.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoSorry wasn't trying to be un-chilled. I just realized that my original message intent was ambiguous. David and others were drilling down on the details of the job categories, which was incidental to my main claim which was that US employers view H-1B visa holders as employees at a discount. There are some ineffective efforts that try to prevent this from being the case but as others have pointed out too many employers game the job description and get the future employee to go along with the charade. Which they do because the immigrant is getting compensated in two ways, both by getting a visa and by getting a job. My thesis is that if employers were required to pay immigrant workers 'market wage', they would no longer be seeing a 'shortage' of tech workers. If I were an immigrant worker I'd be quite irritated by this abuse but understand that many consider it the cost of getting a visa.