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Re:DOJ Cautions Employers Seeking H-1B Visas Not to Discrimi... by tangocom on Monday April 03, 2017 @11:59PM (#14029382)
Protectionism does work. Just ask the Lawyers and the Airline pilots. The reason software engineers are not paid as well now is because we don't have a Bar association or Labor union to keep out the low rate foreign competition.
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Re:DOJ Cautions Employers Seeking H-1B Visas Not to Discrimi... by aub3bhat on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @06:06AM (#14031013)
Lawyers and Pilots, hahhahahaha. I guess you are completely out of loop on unemployment among Lawyers. And Airline Pilots are even worse off. So no some magical unicorn union isn't going to fix massive oversupply of intelligent Chinese and Indians, if America tries another not directly named Chinese Exclusion Act (The White House just tried that with Muslim Ban), then maybe its Canada who will benefit.
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Re:DOJ Cautions Employers Seeking H-1B Visas Not to Discrimi... by techk on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @02:56PM (#14036033)
You are partly right. Protectionism may work for jobs which need physical presence or security clearance. (lawyers, doctors, teachers, government/defense/aviation employees). But I am not so sure it will work for Tech jobs, which can be moved anywhere in the world. IaaS platforms make it even trivial.
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Re:DOJ Cautions Employers Seeking H-1B Visas Not to Discrimi... by nova22033 on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @09:15AM (#14032209)
>The reason software engineers are not paid as well

The annual mean wage for Software engineers is higher than that for lawyers and pilots.

https://www.bls.gov/oes/2015/may/oes_nat.htm

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Re:DOJ Cautions Employers Seeking H-1B Visas Not to Discrimi... by tangocom on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:26PM (#14039163)
Please double-check the link you posted on mean salaries:

Programmers $98K Lawyers $136K Airline pilots $136K (not including big retirement benefits)

The link you posted proves the point I was making.

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Re:DOJ Cautions Employers Seeking H-1B Visas Not to Discrimi... by ericd on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:15PM (#14039124)
It can help in the short term, but it can also kill the competitiveness of the companies they work for, leading to worse long term outcomes for everyone.
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