America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers

Re:America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers by tomohelix on Thursday August 24, 2023 @11:49PM (#37257807)

There was a bill like that where PhDs would be exempted from visa limits and such. But it was discarded because the House considered it would cost the US 1 billion dollars over 10 years.

Don't know who or what kind of analysis they did to pull that 1 billion number. It just shows how inane and stupid the entire US immigration and laws are.

Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2022/07/14/phd-i...

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Re:America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers by tho2i34u23o432 on Friday August 25, 2023 @12:04AM (#37257914)

Ironically, every PhD in the US costs nearly ~$1M in funding.

People who graduate are stuck in a weird love-hate relationship. You can't hate it because of the generous funding; you can't not hate it because of the insane politics behind immigration that tied to all sorts of historical notions of racial supremacy and so on.

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Re:America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers by HWR_14 on Thursday August 24, 2023 @11:53PM (#37257839)

It's stupider than that. For some reasons they couldn't just add a processing fee to offset the cost.

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