The "Wage Level" Mirage: H-1B proposal could help outsourcers and hurt US talent

Re:The "Wage Level" Mirage: H-1B proposal could help outsour... by trhway on Thursday September 25, 2025 @03:47AM (#45370273)

> For tech, it is 100% being used to import cheap, disposable labor in a way that harms U.S. citizens economically.

I'd argue with the 100% - we all know the companies that do it. They get about half of H1B visas. So 50% :)

The blanket $100K (instead of say tiering it like raising fee $50K for each next 20K tier of visas with the $250K fee visas no subject to the cap - if only Tramp knew anything about business and specifically price differentiation :) would definitely revive outsourcing to offshore.

This time, with AI agents, the outsourcing would work much better though.

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Re:The "Wage Level" Mirage: H-1B proposal could help outsour... by lucyjojo on Thursday September 25, 2025 @04:26AM (#45370499)

> This time the offshore teams will be using AI agents. May probably lead to much higher performance.

What do you mean exactly by that. I do not follow...

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Re:The "Wage Level" Mirage: H-1B proposal could help outsour... by franktankbank on Thursday September 25, 2025 @08:04AM (#45371846)

Ahh, so its as simple has having a well managed situation. Easy enough to outsource then. LETS GOOOO!

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