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The main problem with H1B visas with regards to domestic workers is that it disincentivizes Americans from getting the skills, credentials and degrees needed to get the jobs.
To fix the problem and incentivize Americans to become talented and creative engineers and programmers, the playing field needs to be level.
A programmer from India isn't bringing the mountain of debt with them that an American will have amassed; thus they can work for much lower wages.
That programmer from India is NEVER going to have that mountain of debt so why would an American ever get the skills to compete with them?
There's two solutions.
One is to stop H1B or severely restrict it. Restrict it in a,"you have to take a barely qualified American over a well qualified foreigner," way.
If these folks coming over here are such wonderful additions to America, then why don't they come over as genuine immigrants and become Americans? The answer is they dont' want to. They want to remain nationals of their home country and suck up the much better wages and conditions here.
I am against any sizeable number of foreigners remaining so while they live here. Don't want to be an American, fuck off right back home.
The second solution is to wipe those debts away for anyone with an "essential" STEM degree and that will allow our fresh faced grads the ability to accept lower pay for the same quality of life.
By the way, it's not racism to want to limit the number of foreigners living here.
It's NATIONALISM.
Get it right.
As a long time worker in the IT industry I can state clearly and for the record there was NEVER a shortage of IT workers. There WAS always a shortage of IT workers willing to work for sub-minimum wage... But I went into higher ed and worked my way up over the years so mostly I have to keep quiet about it publicly at least...
ReplyDeleteCollege tuition spiked significantly when fedgov got into the business. Colleges quickly realized that they could wildly increase tuition since Uncle would guarantee students and the payments. Quite literally, colleges could not price themselves out of the market.
ReplyDeleteSide note: That scheme contrived by fedgov is what gave rise to shysters like the University of Phoenix and it's many campuses around the country.
Get fedgov out of higher education. That would alleviate the problem of students chained to debt. That would tend to make graduates more marketable. Complete extermination of the problem would take longer.
The problem is bigger than just H1B visas. We also outsource work to companies in India so they get the jobs without leaving home. It's not just India, but China (!) of all places, too. Some countries won't allow a US company to sell products into their market unless the US company creates jobs in their country. Maybe the tariff idea can work for that?
ReplyDeleteAt my last job, they outsourced some software work to China. I wondered why we would ship intellectual property to a county that doesn't recognize copyright laws, but that's laughably naive. It's outright IP theft and considering it was avionics software, probably in their military aircraft within a year.
Resentment of the abuses of immigration is building (hence, Donald Trump). I wouldn't be too surprised to see a future POTUS and Congress all but slamming the gates shut---and this time, unlik before, they'd STAY shut.
ReplyDeleteGet Fedgov out of a lot of shit and see what comes of it. Nothing but good!
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