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by davidf18 9y ago
You might consider reading Thomas Frank https://www.theguardian.com/profile/thomas-frank Who writes how the left ignored the working class and how the working class supported Trump before the election: March 2016 :
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Thomas Frank ("What's the matter with Kansas, "Listen, Liberal (2016)), is an American journalist who was kicked off MSNBC and writes for The Guardian instead and not US MSM. Not only did US MSM (NYT, WaPo, ...) ignore Frank,
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> "But, I'll take them over coal any day...." But the economic alternative is not coal but natural gas. What is you opinion in this context?
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I think nuclear power plants are beautiful and work without wind and without sunlight to boot!
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Apparently the list is limited to Europe. But many millennial Europeans would love to live in NYC or SV/SF. A problem for them is that university education is "free" in much of Europe, paid for by high taxes and they can&#x27
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Thank you for the information. Very helpful! I am for fairness and global labor arbitrage importing labor through H1-B and other means is inherently unfair. One of the things that really angered me about NYT and WaPo and other MSM is that
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> "I hate the exploitation of the H1-B program: but the H1-B is capitalism..." Sure, there is capitalism, but there is also breaking the law. The abuse of the H1-B Visa program is breaking the law since it is only supposed to
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> "Why is it that trading goods, especially the ones that US excels at, is good, but not trading services that require people to travel to the customer's location?" Here is the reason: the intent of the H1-B program is to
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"The Duchifat-2 (Hoopoe) is one of 28 nanosatellites from 23 countries participating in the European Union’s QB50 thermosphere research program, but it’s the only one constructed by high school students. Over 80 pupils in grades 9-12 a
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Nanosatellite built by Israeli high-schoolers blasts into space(timesofisrael.com)
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Google: 1 Sergey Brin but he came to US as 6 yo. Hardly a H1-B visa person. Also, Andy Grove did not come as H1-B visa but rather as Hungarian refugee. He came in 1956 when Hungary was under control of Soviets and in fact right after or
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I wish FB let you select certain categories. For example, only postings from Friends. Or only postings from other feeds that I follow. There is all of this garbage that I don't want, so as a result I rarely look. Twitter use Tweetbot
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"Companies like Microsoft, Intel and Amazon are also big recipients. At least 15 percent of the American workforces of Facebook and the chip maker Qualcomm hold H-1Bs, according to the most recent documents the companies have filed wit
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Trump Signs Order That Could Lead to Curbs on Foreign Workers(nytimes.com)
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It does allow more immigrants to displace American workers or workers looking for work or depress American wages. The only bill that needs passing is one that rescinds all H1-b visas that don't follow the letter of the law including th
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> "Did Seattle rain in your coffee or something?" Haha very funny. Starbucks HQ is in Seattle. I do drink Starbucks sometimes.
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Passing the bill means more importation of cheap labor effectively lower wages while displacing Americans from working in America. I'm for enforcing the H1-B Visa law which means only for jobs where there is no American with the skill
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Depends on who is saying it. If you look at my previous comments on different topics you'll find that I cite references where I can.
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No, there is a business case as it keeps tech labor costs lower, at least at the time the decision was made 40 years ago to locate in Seattle. You'll note that Boeing relocated their HQ to Chicago.
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It is not conspiracy theory rather a business decision to not want to be in a labor market where your competitors can hire away your best workers. It could also be true that 1. Gates didn't want to locate in SV for that business rea
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And of course, biographies are 100% correct, especially on what might be a contentious issue.
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I'm sorry for your personal suffering, but as a systemic issue, immigrants are taking jobs away from Americans. Whether it be in software, healthcare, or other professional job, Americans are being displaced. As for the number of Gre
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See my comment above. I recall Gates or other reliable source stating this information and it made sense, because for me, Seattle is boring, boring.
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> "Why not stay in Albuquerque then?" Couldn't find the tech talent there. > "which has a top-ranked Computer Science program" You do realize this was 40 years ago and as I had already pointed out, things chan
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Seattle has presumably changed a bit since Microsoft was founded there about 40 years ago. No Amazon, etc. No competition for labor from other tech firms. Gates located there because he did not want to compete for labor from other tech f
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It's true he was from there, but he also located there so that he would not have to compete with SV for labor.
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If you're going to downvote by 2 points, please state what is inaccurate. Nothing I have stated is inaccurate and Americans agree with me.
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H1-B not so much although Trump complained vociferously against Disney replacing US IT workers with imports. More significant was the displacement of US working class through free trade, and through illegal aliens. But in each case, the Re
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> "The intent of H1-B was to get talented immigrants for jobs for which we had a shortage of American labor." Actually, the intent of H1-B is to fill jobs for which there are no Americans that have the skill set. A "short
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Of all of the candidates both Republican and Democrat (and including President Obama) only one, President Trump was not in bed with Silicon Valley and Tech companies attempting to depress American Wages and replace Americans with cheaper fo

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