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It's another version "doing the jobs [white nationality] won't do" canard, which you hear all the time in the "debate" about immigration from Mexico to the USA
by jmorphy88 11y ago
It's another version "doing the jobs [white nationality] won't do" canard, which you hear all the time in the "debate" about immigration from Mexico to the USA (legal and otherwise). It really means "doing the jobs [white nationality] won't do at well-below-market wages".
It's a way of lending Narrative to the purely economic nature of mass immigration -- we're expected to believe that it's about bringing in "innovators", or "hard-working people just looking for a chance", or "people who want to make a better life for themselves". In reality mass immigration is entirely about business and elites undercutting wages and replacing the local population with a cheaper one. It's the same for farm owners hiring illegals as it is for Mark Zuckerberg lobbying for more H1Bs.
- guard-of-terra 11y agoI'm not sure it's same for H1Bs. There's a finite demand for farm work. But when SV succeeds in creating a new Google using H1B labor, it benefits whole country and also creates more jobs, even for native population. And it does that from time to time.
- jmorphy88 11y agoThat sounds like another version of the same narrative: "creating the Googles that [white nationality] won't create".
- guard-of-terra 11y agoCreate more googles than just white people currently residing in the US of A will create.
- jmorphy88 11y agoThe Narrative is that H1Bs have some kind of magical entrepreneurial powers that do not exist in the native population, thus we must increase their numbers dramatically so that we do not fall into a dark age of innovation. This is nonsense. Silicon Valley was innovating long before the existence of the H1B visa.
- guard-of-terra 11y agoNope. It's just that world has limited number of magical entrepreneurs, and most of them aren't living in the USA. Gotta collect them all.