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>If they did then the average Wal-Mart worker would be making a lot more and have much better benefits. But tech people seem quite okay with buying things made

>If they did then the average Wal-Mart worker would be making a lot more and have much better benefits. But tech people seem quite okay with buying things made in China, and third world countries. When was the last time someone bought a router that was 40% more expensive but made in the USA? How many of the people who upvoted your comment made it the top comment ever check for a Made in USA sticker for their clothes or furniture even if it was expensive? Screw the low skilled compatriots so that you can afford higher spec MacBook and a Starbucks coffee, right? Google/Motorola learnt the above lesson very fast with the Moto X which was assembled in the US and now that facility is closed because of bad sales inspite of a big advertising campaign. So tech workers take full advantage of everything else becoming a commodity and now want to prevent the global tech labor supply affecting their already comparatively high wages so that computing/software stays expensive for the rest of society? Next up, restrict open source software and remote work from other countries so that there is more work for tech workers and wages stay high? Won't artificially high salaries affect startups, where a few thousand bucks can easily kill a promising startup that needs time to grow? Restricting H1B visas will increase offshoring, which means the folks won't be paying local taxes in the US including State Unemployment, Social Security and Medicare taxes(they're not eligible for benefits though).

lgleason 12y ago
Be it right or wrong it would be nearly impossible to buy many products if you only bought ones that are made in the United States. I don't think that many people would argue for restricting open source software.....except for some risk averse enterprise types. "Won't artificially high salaries affect startups, where a few thousand bucks can easily kill a promising startup that needs time to grow?" Keep in mind that this would not just affect an engineers salary with a startup, but also their equity grant which will probably equal a lower ownership in the company. With offshoring, if it was going to actually have an effect on salaries it would, but more jobs are still kept in US and/or same time-zone.
jarsin 12y ago
"Restricting H1B visas will increase offshoring" Actually something I have seen twice now and heard about being a common occurrence is H1-B people come here. Get sent home eventually after they are all trained up by the company. Then they obtain an offshore contract with the company and any of there other contacts they made while they were here. So its a big win for the company because they get someone offshore that is trained in their ways and now that they are offshore they work for even less than when they were here.

lgleason 12y ago

Be it right or wrong it would be nearly impossible to buy many products if you only bought ones that are made in the United States. I don't think that many people would argue for restricting open source software.....except for some risk averse enterprise types. "Won't artificially high salaries affect startups, where a few thousand bucks can easily kill a promising startup that needs time to grow?" Keep in mind that this would not just affect an engineers salary with a startup, but also their equity grant which will probably equal a lower ownership in the company. With offshoring, if it was going to actually have an effect on salaries it would, but more jobs are still kept in US and/or same time-zone.

jarsin 12y ago

"Restricting H1B visas will increase offshoring" Actually something I have seen twice now and heard about being a common occurrence is H1-B people come here. Get sent home eventually after they are all trained up by the company. Then they obtain an offshore contract with the company and any of there other contacts they made while they were here. So its a big win for the company because they get someone offshore that is trained in their ways and now that they are offshore they work for even less than when they were here.