Re:Elite Underproduction
by amusedcyclist on Sunday November 07, 2021 @05:30PM
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H1B's in Big tech are about as far from indentured servants as you can imagine, they're in high demand and switch jobs for better pay constantly. American kids with access to generational wealth aren't as interested in difficult technical subjects.
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> H1B's in Big tech are about as far from indentured servants as you can imagine
False.
> they're in high demand and switch jobs for better pay constantly.
And each time they do so, their new employer has to go through the entire process of getting them a new H1 visa. When your right to be in a place is dependent upon your labor to a specific contracted employer, you are an indentured servant.
>new employer has to go through the entire process of getting them a new H1 visa.
this is not true, saying this as a person on h1 who changed jobs easily.
when talking about indentured servants you are probably referring to small Indian IT bodyshops, that keep people on low wages due to them being on a very long green card queue, but this has nothing to do with H1 per se. These people do not work in big tech