An unpopular view here, but it must be stated. There was a time when the American worker was unquestionably worth a premium salary. Now that jobs have to be designed for the lowest common denominator thanks to the corrosive effects of television culture and government education on our workforce over the last four decades, companies figure they might as well cut costs using the H1B program and other tactics.
Sure, there is a lot of short-sightedness in corporate hiring, but talent acquisition and retention has become a monumental challenge for American firms...just as the Socialists intended.
You can’t be stupid and lazy and get a STEM degree. You are so FOS.
While this is a factor, I feel like it’s generally exaggerated, sure there a lot of snowflakes doing womyn’s studies at many unis. But I’ve also encountered lots of kids who study the hard sciences and engineering and computer science, and they’re the ones being shafted by the h1b visa, not the liberal snowflakes who are usually given cush jobs in government or in corporate HR departments as “diversity coordinators”. Plus, a lot of the worst damage from the h1b is being done to more experienced programmers and STEM workers who know their craft, even many ex military guys who are the complete opposite of the entitled snowflakes.
So while there does need to be better focus on getting practical skills, the way countries like the German educational system are smart to do with their mass apprenticeships, still there are plenty of bright hard working Americans who didn’t major in transgender virtue signalling in college and learned useful skills, and these are the ones that the likes of Zuckerberg, Adelson, Soros and the Chamber of Commerce are shafting so much. Again, the womyn’s studies types all get jobs as diversity coordinators because of the perverse way that both US companies and the government are driven to look politically correct. The h1b visa only hurts the kids who actually do the right thing, work hard and study subjects leading to real skills. My own company hired several kids out of US colleges who studied STEM and there’s been no drop in quality, if anything some of our best hires have come out of the recent crop, and in a couple cases they were displaced by h1b hires in their previous jobs.
There’s just no excuse for the h1b, and if anything getting rid of it would force US educators to get rid of the womyn’s studies degrees and put more effort into more STEM training to meet the job openings. Trump is right to crack the whip on Disney and the other companies doing this.