Depress wages?
Hell, I sold cars in Silicon Valley for 18 months.
If H1B is depressing wages I’d like to know how.
I regularly sold to H1B and they make anywhere from $90k-$180 and that is for generic programmers.
My problem is there are plenty of Americans who could do those jobs.
I just don’t see any outreach to American workers or training targeted at them but, it is there and available.
There are city colleges and orivate schools who teach this.
Programmers/Coders aren’t some problem solver within an organization, they are typing in a bunch of commands toward a project objective, which cracks me up.
It’s funny to me becaue it’s just fast typing in another language to build a program that does certain things.
Like here on FR. If want to make a point in formatting characters, sentences, paragraphs, underline, bold, blinking, insert pictures embed youtube, etc I just type the content and backfill the commands .
A coder does it all at the same time because he’s use to doing it all day along. Heck, they even place bookmarksintheircode then dont bother taking it out because it generally doesn’t affect the program.
without the proper coding and commands it just gets ignored and becomes part of bloatware.
Anyway, we could reduce the number of “Mexicons” and hire Mexicans to do coding.
Do you see the Chinese, Pakistani and Indians coming here to mow lawns, do construction, paint etc?
No? Well, there are here and when a company is run by someome from those countries bids a job they can undercut wages but, they also do mot have quality workmanship and use various products that do not match or are inferior.
The cost for labor reflects their inferior workmanship akd usually very few of the workers are certified for any of the skilled trades and much of what they do is guess work.
Compare those companies to one run by Americans and you generally find workers qualified in trades such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical(low or high voltage), tile, etc and as such youbfind higher quality workmanship because learning to perform their trade over the years became something they wanted to be proud of and leave a mark that distinguishes them from the posueres.
Culturally we have way more in common with the peoples of Latin American Countries and they would raise the level of living for themselves and their families back home.
We should outsource to IT companies in Latin America and those jobs would bring more jobs, in those respective countries and so on.
Help our country and hemisphere prosper:
Hire American and Latin American.
You sound like a crazy globalist. A citizen of the world type. Screw that.
“Programmers/Coders arent some problem solver within an organization, they are typing in a bunch of commands toward a project objective”
As a 20+ year software engineer I can assure you that it involves a hell of a lot more than just ‘typing in a bunch of commands”