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androidsixteen
@androidsixteen.eth
The main thing I believe about the current skilled immigration debate: The H-1B visa is a very bad implementation of a very good idea I don’t know if the USA has the political will to build a better merit-based immigration system (the current system is from 1952) That’s fundamentally what we ought to be discussing IMO
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EulerLagrange.eth - bank/acc
@eulerlagrange.eth
Fundamentally it’s used as a mechanism to suppress wages. American workers compete with people who’ll work for less and can’t leave (big part of negotiating salary). There could be a way to have high skilled immigration but not have them tied to a particular company
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Mantej Rajpal 🇺🇸
@mantej.eth
narrator: they didn’t have the political will
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Jawa
@jawa
Also true for our unskilled labor.
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MJC
@mjc716
saw an interesting idea somewhere where you just auction off x amount of h1bs per year to companies merit and economic value not perfectly aligned ofc and I imagine there would be ways it could go wrong but it would certainly be more productive policy than the current implementation
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czar
@czar
seems like that is what Elon et al are saying. but it is flying right past the maga crowd
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jtgi
@jtgi
h1b is abused by Indian outsourcing companies like infosys and cognizant (imo) and could use some reform but as is its a net benefit and at worst inconsequential in practice due to its small numbers. I get it’s a principle issue for some though. Agree on political will; shame because it’s not that hard, here’s japan’s point system: https://www.tn-office.jp/_p/acre/16294/documents/Points_Calculation_Table.pdf?ref=hir.harvard.edu
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Mikki Dora 🦴🍓🔵🏄🧾
@mikkidoralives
Where I live the fishing and crabbing industry fail without h-1b visas.
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