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The Silicon Valley privilege bubble is on farcical display here. The immigration that bothers the vast majority of Americans (and, indeed, the native populatio
by carsongross 12y ago
The Silicon Valley privilege bubble is on farcical display here.
The immigration that bothers the vast majority of Americans (and, indeed, the native populations in all countries) is low-skilled immigration that swamps lower-income communities and drives down wages for the middle and lower classes.
At this point I cannot help but think that the conflation of these two different types of immigration is intentional.
- jnbiche 12y agoYeah, try being a hard-working, competent, solidly middle class 45-year old software developer who has been laid off from his job at BigCorp in SmallCity, Midwest, probably because BigCorp is bringing in a wave of L1 employees who "understand the technology" better. SmallCity sees an average of 1-2 software jobs posted on Monster a month, some of which aren't even real jobs. His only options are to uproot his family, and take the risk of moving out to SV where he has no friends, family, or support system, and try to learn Javascript so he can fit in at some ping-pong playing start-up, or watch his family slowly descend into semi-poverty on his wife's 20,000/year secretary/policewoman/teacher salary (if the family is lucky enough to have a working mother). I know it's hard to believe, but in much of the country, software engineering (and even "real" engineering) jobs are always not jobs that carry extravagant upper-middle class salaries. Outside of SV and large cities, most software developers, even very competent ones, are solidly middle class, making considerably less than doctors, lawyers, bankers, and other members of the "professional" upper middle classes.
- LLWM 12y agoOr to work remotely. Or to start his own business. Or find work in another industry. Or do one of a million other things.