If we halted everything at present technology, it wouldn't impose much of a burden on anyone.
We are all just prisoners of our own devices.
agreed - the opinion piece is complete nonsense. tech workers are easy to find particularly now as many are being laid off in droves. simply cancel H1B and return these guys (mostly to India, but a few Russians etc.) the tech companies will then be forced to hire older workers who cost more (too bad) as well as provide funding for training to colleges.
H1B and the rest of H1 categories are a huge scam - just enriches tech shareholders at expense of US workers.
There is a website where COBOL programmers can pursued by companies who need COBOL resources.....to work for free.
They just need to do it the way Japan does - you can hire all the foreign workers you want, but you are required to pay them 10% more than the prevailing wage for citizens.
There are plenty of qualified tech workers who don’t care to move to the west coast!
Boo hoo.
“In the 10 years prior to the pandemic, the number of computer-related workers soared by 62%, while the number in all other fields grew by just 13%. “
Ad I’ll be their wages were either stagnant or decreased because of cheap foreign labor in the US.
Big tech will be forced to hire American CIS and computer science grads and train them to the requirements of the job. But who will train them? I have an idea. How about the Indian H 1 B contractors who were trained by American tech employees specifically to replace them. Now the Indians can train Americans to replace them.Karma is a beatch.
Because all the ones here are too busy committing Arson, Looting and tearing down Statues of Historical Figures?
Lies! There are plenty of us, mostly older.
They obviously didn't have any business use for it, or they would have funded a new division, or acquisitions.
So they could have bought state bonds with it -- exempt from Federal Taxes -- and used the interest alone to generate a billion or two in free cash flow.
Without jeopardizing the principal, or affecting free cash flow from continuing operations.
That billion or two probably would have paid the price differential for US citizen programmers vs. H1-Bs.
But no, they "can't afford it."
These people make the robber barons of old look generous.
Remember when Jeff Bozo of Amazon cut the health-care payment for part time workers? At the time, the richest man in the history of the planet.
My high school son loves coding Java and Python and he’s great at it. Also great at chess and piano. He will take a community college class in C++ this fall.
He’s planning to major in Computer Science in college.
Also he’s a conservative and a good American kid.
Hopefully Trump’s ban on HI-b workers lasts 4 years for him.
Missed by the employers maybe. But employees who will no longer have their salaries artificially depressed? They won't miss the H-1Bs at all.
Bullshit. You could get Americans to pick lettuce if you paid what the market would bear. I guarantee you could get IT people. Saying you can’t get Americans really means “I can’t get Americans for cheap to free, while holding my sponsorship of their presence in the US as a sword over their head”.
The market price of IT workers will decide the shortage, or not......
Good. Now maybe the Disney IT staff and workers from other companies who were displaced by H1Bs (also known as Indians) can find jobs. Oh, and as a retired Unix admin, I’m available under strict preconditions.
Odd - the “[Globalist Scum Alert]” with which I prefixed the thread title is gone, athough it remained on this post: https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3859555/posts
If we halted everything at present technology, it wouldn't impose much of a burden on anyone.
We are all just prisoners of our own devices.