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Ask HN: Why are US tech workers so pro open borders?

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Re: Ask HN: Why are US tech workers so pro open borders?

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A few comments. I'm a software engineer and I am very _pro-immigration_. This view point seems to be held pretty consistently among my colleagues (although certainly not universally). I am not pro "open borders"; that's different. I'm not sure all the exact data behind the assumptions in the question, but I can comment on why I am in favor of immigration: My experience working with a lot of international people (H-1B…

Do you have bad experiences with US workers, since you implicitly contrast them with immigrant ones?

Is that what you got out of it? Seems like some bias might have been brought to the reading, since at no point did they “contrast” US workers from what I see. They simply stated they are pro-immigration because they view them as beneficial additions to the US workforce? So the better question is why did you feel the need to inject such an argument rather than receiving what was actually said?

Re: Ask HN: Why are US tech workers so pro open borders?

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You might as well ask why US tech workers are in favour of computer science education when it clearly does not benefit them that new people learn to code etc.

That’s a whataboutism. The original question is why many US tech workers support open borders for tech labor when the supply increase primarily hits the wages and bargaining power of workers already here.

Nope it is not. It is an explanation for why you see it. You said you can’t understand why people are not trying to prevent new people over entering the tech labour market in US.

They simply see that the longterm gain for everyone is higher by having more people do high-value creating jobs vs the shortterm strategy of pulling up the ladder after yourself.

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