They loveH1-B slaves

    • BMTea@lemmy.world
      311·
      22 days ago

      This isn’t even necessarily true. Most of my friends migrated to the US on H1-B. It’s about poaching global talent. It’s not like US tech can only rely on US labor.

        • BMTea@lemmy.world
          1·
          22 days ago

          How so? 25% of FAANG workers are foreign-born and the growth of US tech labor is significantly lower than the demand. Are there policy proposals for addressing that while remaining globally competitive?

          • orcrist@lemm.ee
            1·
            21 days ago

            The growth is lower than the demand, so salaries should be skyrocketing, right? But that’s not what the numbers show. So I think you’re using the word “demand” in rather specific way.

            • BMTea@lemmy.world
              1·
              21 days ago

              No. The domestic labor growth is lower than the demand, so the demand is met with the foreign workers necessary.

          • Madison420@lemmy.world
            1·
            22 days ago

            Could and should are two separate issues. They could do it only with us workers it would just be ruinous.

            • BMTea@lemmy.world
              1·
              22 days ago

              Exactly what I’m trying to argue. It’s also a strange issue on the left where progressivism in the form of increased job security and regressivism in the form of nativist immigration policy clash.

      • Frozengyro@lemmy.world
        41·
        22 days ago

        It definitely could. Now whether that’s the best thing for profits is a different question.

        • hypna@lemmy.world
          31·
          22 days ago

          There’s a profit angle in terms of keeping wages down, but there’s also a competitive angle. Having a bigger talent pool to draw on means you get better talent, particularly when you’re in the top spot in terms of pay, quality of life, professional achievement, etc.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          22 days ago

          ^ This. It’s just a matter of will. Mammon demands that they drive labor costs toward zero, though, even if that means throwing their own citizens overboard, and fucking over a lot of foreign workers.

  • immutable@lemm.ee
    8·
    22 days ago

    Oh the dudes that make tons of money by exploiting workers would like cheaper more easily exploitable workers. Shocked pikachu

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    22 days ago

    You’d think the MAGA tools would be all for it, telling workers in at-risk industries to be “more hardcore” or “learn to code (more)” or whatever the fuck. Like they jeered others losing their jobs…