Re:WSJ: H-1B Visas Keep Down U.S. Tech Wages, Study Shows
by xiaoma on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @12:56AM
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>"You're effectively fucking middle America into relocating both their people and businesses."
I haven't taken anyone's job, I'm sensitive to wage disparities, I support companies letting people work remotely and I'm not doing anything at all to middle America.
Re:WSJ: H-1B Visas Keep Down U.S. Tech Wages, Study Shows
by bobdole1234 on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @09:15PM
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Most of the problem with middle America not having jobs is brain drain.
There's no jobs because it's very hard to find people to fill key roles.
But there's no people to fill key roles because there's no longer any jobs, and they're in more populous centers.
If you're pushing policy that prices the few businesses there out of the remaining pools they can hire from, you might as well just close up the middle of the country and admit defeat.
Re:WSJ: H-1B Visas Keep Down U.S. Tech Wages, Study Shows
by sumedh on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @10:54PM
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> You're effectively fucking middle America into relocating both their people and businesses.
Some Australian visas have a condition that you must spend 2 years in a regional area, maybe the US and its states can have the condition that you must work in some certain regions for X years.
Not every company is in a place where they can find enough local customers to support a 2x increase in their salary costs. While that has been made somewhat better by the reach of the Internet it's still going to be a powerful force to move companies from lower density areas where it's almost impossible to recruit, and into high density areas that already have the bulk of the talent and customers.
You're effectively fucking middle America into relocating both their people and businesses.