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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by acdha on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:45PM (#19041855)
Look at it from the other direction: large companies have fought giving H1-B workers better protections. They wouldn’t be doing that if they weren’t profiting from workers with less negotiating ability.

That’s also my position: don’t ban them, give them flexibility to switch jobs like everyone else so companies can’t hold the threat of deportation over them if they want a better deal.

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by femiagbabiaka on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:21PM (#19042025)
Agreed — more freedom, not less, is the ideal solution here.
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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by austincheney on Thursday January 31, 2019 @03:04AM (#19043250)
You replied to a comment arguing against positions made from speculation without data by supplying more speculation without data.
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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by acdha on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:20AM (#19045857)
There's some data out there but it's also hard to compare reliably since you need to account for differences in skill level when comparing salaries.

My point was that the large companies which have the best data, and whole teams of people doing the math on this issue, have consistently fought to preserve the old ways of doing it and since they're for-profit corporations it seems unlikely that they're doing this for any reason other than the econ 101 explanation that they profit from workers who can't negotiate as well.

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