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Nicole Shanahan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate in 2024, said on Thursday that the H1-B visa program delivers “massive breaks” for cheap labor for tech companies, and those with the visas are essentially “indentured servants” for big tech.
The selection of Siriam Krishnan as a senior policy adviser for artificial intelligence in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has sparked a widespread debate over the H1-B visa program, which conservatives have railed as “abusive” and designed to undercut wages of white-collar Americans.
Vivek Ramaswamy further enflamed the controversy when he claimed that America “has venerated mediocrity over excellence.”
Shanahan weighed into the debate, stating emphatically that the visa program has been abused to serve as corporate welfare, as it delivers “massive breaks” for cheap labor for big tech, and that these visa workers are “indentured servants” for big tech companies. more
I wish big business had to repay us for all the hidden costs we cover so business can have their slave labor. Fuckers.
Every visa worker I have encountered took 2 weeks to do the same amount of work as 2 days typical American talent. It’s always a scam. Plus the language barrier.
She’s not wrong, tho’.
And yet; Musk loves it. Still waiting for Trump to condemn these insults thrown at Americans… still waiting….
keep hiring shitholers @ your own risk, employer-*******
Fixing the H1-Bs will not solve the problem. Fixing education in this country just might.
PS Lots of trolls on the comment boards all over the ‘Net on this one.
Big business went from putting a finger on the scale to increase H1B workers, to putting both hands and both feet onto the scale. This has gone on long enough that those US citizens entering the labor market today have seen first their grandparents, and then their parents, being jerked around by the system.
As an IT Project Manager with a BS in Computer Science and Certs from Lotus, Microsoft, Cisco, and Project Management I saw my 14 position shop go from all American IT workers with college degrees to H1B employees that had only certifications while loosing 4 positions in 8 years. I was the last one let go where a H1B guy got my position. As a tech he was making half of what I made. I had to change career fields to land a job.
Tsquared, it looks like the company is now getting the job done with 30% fewer people and paying 50% less money. Somewhere around 70% reduction in labor cost?
Probably related to the 2 Reynolds Wrap boxes I have. The old one had 250 square feet of foil. The new one has 200.
See? things are so much better this way.