alt Hacker NewsOr it’s a way for the less fortunate (geographically) to seek a better future.
They more or less got rid of it last September, yet the job market has only worsened. Scapegoating minorities, whether it be trans people, brown people, Muslims or immigrants, doesn’t work. All it does is destroy lives.
> You give away your bias when it is the other way around.
How so?
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No country is ever going to be able to create a functional local software economy if every good engineer get sucked out of the country.
In many ways the current system is cruel to every international company which forces their local wages to compete with the United States.
Why not both? It is a feedback loop. When the US allowed railroad/mine workers from China, it is true that Chinese labor wanted a better future and that capitalists want to use Chinese labor to suppress American wages. For instance, look at the animosity towards Chinese workers in Wyoming by European workers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Springs_massacre
American corporations could care less about giving anyone a better future.
archagon was attempting to paint declan_roberts comment as blaming H1B workers on working conditions, which they did not do. But H1Bs will be used to suppress wages by working more hours 996 under worse conditions (oncall, etc). This is low rhetoric. To call out how H1Bs are being used is not scapegoating nor is it racist. It makes zero difference where they come from. The cause is corporate greed, the effect is more H1Bs.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-h-1b-hiring-faces-1230...
https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/05/20/amazons-33181-h-...
Amazon has cut, what 30k+ folks while increasing their H1B allocation.