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There’s no doubt the promoters of the bill are self-interested, and one should read the fine print, but: the notion of excluding workers that are on a different
by mwsherman 12y ago
There’s no doubt the promoters of the bill are self-interested, and one should read the fine print, but: the notion of excluding workers that are on a different side of a border, in order to “protect” wages, is deeply immoral.
Do the wages of the people outside of the border count? Theirs would be going up, due to a more liberal immigration policy. The idea that such a bill would “lower engineers’ wages” seems to be selective in which engineers we are talking about.
- pcthrowaway 12y agoI agree completely. I will also add however that it took me nearly two years from graduating with a Computer Science degree to land my first job in the field, so I do take offense to the fact that employers want employees who can do a certain thing now, rather than investing in employees who will be able to grow into their role. I would have gladly worked for minimum wage for a year to get that experience (which is what I ended up doing with an internship). So I agree that we should let whoever wants move to the U.S. I'm in favor of open borders. But I also acknowledge that more people living here will mean more competition for jobs, and therefore more of a culture of employers treating employees as disposable.