Fewer H-1B Visas Did Not Mean More Employment for Natives (2017)

Re:Fewer H-1B Visas Did Not Mean More Employment for Natives... by whatever1 on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @08:37PM (#45367809)

If I charge you a fee of $10000 / month for home internet, while useful, you will prefer to just not use it and find other ways to access it (maybe from a library or a coffee shop).

Similarly the employers will just cut the bleeding edge programs that require specialty skills and will focus on others that the local labor market can cover.

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Re:Fewer H-1B Visas Did Not Mean More Employment for Natives... by justinhj on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @08:58PM (#45367990)

The argument is that companies cannot hire locally the talent they need. The super star devs that make or break a company. And yet they are not worth $100k?

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Re:Fewer H-1B Visas Did Not Mean More Employment for Natives... by whatever1 on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @09:06PM (#45368061)

It depends on who you ask. If I’m a startup with $500,000 in the bank, I definitely don’t have $100,000 cash to spend on the taxman

However, if I’m a trillion-dollar company, why not?

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