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Re:Obama likely to expand a foreign-student pipeline the hig... by aikah on Thursday November 20, 2014 @05:58PM (#8638736)
> It's a bit sad that you see competition on a global scale as "being fucked over".

more offer+equal demand === lower salaries.

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Re:Obama likely to expand a foreign-student pipeline the hig... by icebraining on Thursday November 20, 2014 @06:49PM (#8638948)
By that logic, tech workers should also demand legally capping the number of new graduates; they provide "more offer" too.
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Re:Obama likely to expand a foreign-student pipeline the hig... by itg on Friday November 21, 2014 @01:17AM (#8640074)
Worked out pretty well for the medical profession
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Re:Obama likely to expand a foreign-student pipeline the hig... by seanflyon on Friday November 21, 2014 @01:50PM (#8642639)
It did, but at the cost of everyone else.
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Re:Obama likely to expand a foreign-student pipeline the hig... by eevilspock on Thursday November 20, 2014 @06:05PM (#8638783)
I have little sympathy for high tech workers complaining about lower salaries when in fact they are probably in the top 20% if not 10% of the earners in the country.

Sadly, here on HN there is little discussion of how the tech industry could focus more on making this a better world. Even more sadly, the deeper discussions that do surface here quickly get booted off the front page because they are "controversial".

(and of course this will get downvoted)

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