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so instead of on-shoring, they will just hire the same talent cross coast?
Seems like this would be a problem for smaller companies (not much cash) and startups (remuneration is stock based). Large companies can absorb the cost if someone is that important. They can also just employ remotely and do an internal company transfer later (L-something visa). I mean the big people it screws are those companies that abuse the system - the IT "consulting" companies, that are functionally a market un…
Do remote workers need visas?
One demographic this policy seems to unintentionally trample is international students. There’s a pretty well-trod path of F1 Visa -> OPT -> (OPT STEM Extension) -> H1B -> (green card, if you’re from the right country). It’s a tall order to expect that all new grads from this path will be able to command such high salaries, and there’s an existing set of international students who have planned their lives on being ab…
I was planning on going down to the states (I'm living in BC Canada), the salaries down there are more than 2x what you can get here. It doesn't look like I'll be able to do that now. With this said, this move by your current administration makes a lot of sense to me, there is an opportunity to grow the American middle class around knowledge work. The United States has the best training institutions and capital struc…
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You are mixing that up with the Greencard, which is a lottery system. H1B must not be a lottery system, and it must not be a way to offload expensive domestic labor to cheap imported labor. Which the well-known Indian H1B cheating companies did. The minimal wage is mandatory to exclude those abusers of the H1B system, so they it is not overloaded anymore. But 200k is definitely too high for the rest of the US, which…
H1b is a lottery.
Greencard is a lottery on the other hand.
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I see some reasons. One is that foreign labor allows lower wages which can make american companies more competitive over foreign ones. Second, allowing foreign workers encourages jobs to stay here in the US where at least the wages will be taxed and a large portion of those salaries will be spent here in the U.S., thus further stimulating the economy. Alternatively,if those same jobs move overseas, we see none of the…
Let’s see. We did the first experiment. I want to do this one too. We can’t just do one experiment and warn of other experiments. If we get a bigger home grown tech sector, then experiment two wins. Let’s get those Java oracle enterprise bootcamps going, I think we have enough need right here in America to fill those jobs. Plenty of Classic Lit majors ready to switch up. Oh, and for who pays the most taxes and contri…