Instead these companies will just layoff Americans and relocate their tech offices in the one country (India) that takes up more than 75% of the H1B pool. (I wonder why?)
Is the 75% of that pool really the most elite "best and brightest" such that it warrants not hiring a US citizen? Or is the true reason that the purchasing power of a US employee is far higher than a H1B from India as long as they're cheap and can be overworked since rebelling means deportation which you can't do to a US citizen?
Those preaching "best and brightest" were also the same ones offshoring their critical technologies and secrets overseas to the low quality engineers just to cuts costs. What it actually does it causes billion dollar problems.
And then there's the scut work nobody seems to want to do - somebody has to pick in the fields, shred those chickens, ... And Connor and Maddie never seem to be interested in jobs at this level.
Will the governments step in to prevent companies from offshoring? Will people pay more at Walmart?
SilverElfin•1mo ago
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collingreen•1mo ago
I'd love to be wrong on this but so far there has been a lot of egregious isolationist behavior that doesn't match up with something I would personally support as "America First". A truly good faith policy of non-isolationist, non-hate-based "America First" would come down hard on falsely imprisoning us citizens, destroying us soft power, abusing us allies, manic tarrifs (even without the billions in insider trading happening around them), blatant corruption, selling pardons, and the massive waste and diversion of us tax money. These things hurt America; honest shepherds don't cover up for wolves in the flock.
I think most us folks would support the idea that our government should help our country as the number one priority. It would be nice if all we debated was which policies to use and on which timescales to focus.
Ironically, the current "America first" approach you're trying to gaslight about is actually putting a bad taste in folks' mouths and hurting any honest cause wanting to push this forward.
tsoukase•1mo ago