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Re:Updates to H-1B by aylmao on Monday December 23, 2024 @12:57AM (#42492169)
> Housing costs triple over night for the win? We'll all be homeless but those of us in construction will get a boost (or decreased competition from low cost imported labor).

Your discourse is sensationalist and unnecessarily agitated. Paying workers a fair wage wouldn't triple housing costs, that figure is completely made up.

> We'll all be homeless

It also wouldn't lead to complete homelessness.

Re:Updates to H-1B by greentxt on Monday December 23, 2024 @04:02PM (#42497558)
Precisely! The real discussion is how much would it decrease supply and what impact on the homeless rate would occur per unit change in labor input cost. Discussion of good/bad/better/worse is fruitless. We need data. But you take the first step by acknowledging these are related costs and social outcomes that exist in a delicate equilibria. Many would just say to heck with unintended consequences it's a matter of principal or ideological mandate. Gotta break a few eggs types.