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A comment on H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads. Parent comment

Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by m0zg on Saturday January 26, 2019 @06:20PM (#19009214)
It blows my mind how, at the same time, the same people can argue in favor of "equality", and in favor of importing unlimited amounts of cheap labor to depress the wages of people who need money the most. It just doesn't compute, at all. And I'm perfectly fine with high cost of living areas getting all the H1Bs. Those areas also happen to have some of the highest tax rates in the country, so the US benefits.
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Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by airstrike on Saturday January 26, 2019 @10:06PM (#19010134)
First of all, there's a difference between imposing a quota on the number of H-1Bs and raising the bar for applications to be approved. I'm in favor of the latter, and the former makes no sense. If the U.S. needs more skilled labor than it can provide, then it should allow as many immigrants as needed to come over to fill the gap. I hope that strikes you as a pretty obvious argument

Second, inequality in the U.S. has nothing to do with an abundance of cheap labor. It has to do with macro trends in globalization and cheap jobs being outsourced to (mostly) Asia.

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