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0 pointsakhilcacharya6y ago0 comments

Almost as though companies want to hire the best person for the job...

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Where "best" = "cheapest", true.

Get off the entitlement high horse! what you snidely dismiss as "cheap" is what companies can afford to pay. Most businesses aren't FAANG and treading water mostly. Would you apply the "no shortage if you pay enough" argument for housing, healthcare or education etc. ?

Sauce for the goose == sauce for the gander

cheese42426y ago

Sounds like these companies don't have viable business models then.

phenkdo6y ago

To me, it sounds like the complainers about "cheap labor" are entitled brats living way beyond their means.

sauce for the goose==sauce for the gander

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devmunchies6y ago

so do you also agree that there should be no minimum wage for small companies?

closeparen6y ago

H1B salaries are public. For my employer anyway, the salaries paid to H1Bs are about the same as for anyone else at those levels.

angry_octet6y ago

Another way to look at it is that the salaries of other workers are pegged to the salaries of H1B workers.

There is a way to improve this situation -- allow H1B workers to easily change employers.

Alternatively, employing an H1B requires paying into a tuition scholarship fund. $50k/year sounds reasonable to me.

closeparen6y ago

I dunno, from the 98th percentile I’m not too anxious to move to 99th. I’m much more worried about losing my Chinese friends and colleagues.

And no amount of tuition assistance is going to make more than a handful of the kids I grew up with capable of this work.

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cheese42426y ago

You realize the companies that push that line don't actually believe it themselves, right?

I always suffer a bit of second-hand embarrassment when others earnestly accept such crude propaganda.

It's all about protecting access to cheap labor.

davidw6y ago

Multinational companies are quite capable of opening offices in places where labor and cost of living is cheap.

If they have trouble bringing people to the US, it's a bigger incentive to do so.

cheese42426y ago

Great, they are free to open offices there then. Good luck to them!

akhilcacharyaOP6y ago

I'd rather they do that here, thanks

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eplanit6y ago

Where "best" = "cheapest", true.

phenkdo6y ago

Sauce for the goose == sauce for the gander

cheese42426y ago

Sounds like these companies don't have viable business models then.

phenkdo6y ago

To me, it sounds like the complainers about "cheap labor" are entitled brats living way beyond their means.

sauce for the goose==sauce for the gander

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devmunchies6y ago

so do you also agree that there should be no minimum wage for small companies?

closeparen6y ago

H1B salaries are public. For my employer anyway, the salaries paid to H1Bs are about the same as for anyone else at those levels.

angry_octet6y ago

Another way to look at it is that the salaries of other workers are pegged to the salaries of H1B workers.

There is a way to improve this situation -- allow H1B workers to easily change employers.

Alternatively, employing an H1B requires paying into a tuition scholarship fund. $50k/year sounds reasonable to me.

closeparen6y ago

I dunno, from the 98th percentile I’m not too anxious to move to 99th. I’m much more worried about losing my Chinese friends and colleagues.

And no amount of tuition assistance is going to make more than a handful of the kids I grew up with capable of this work.

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cheese42426y ago

You realize the companies that push that line don't actually believe it themselves, right?

I always suffer a bit of second-hand embarrassment when others earnestly accept such crude propaganda.

It's all about protecting access to cheap labor.

davidw6y ago

Multinational companies are quite capable of opening offices in places where labor and cost of living is cheap.

If they have trouble bringing people to the US, it's a bigger incentive to do so.

cheese42426y ago

Great, they are free to open offices there then. Good luck to them!

akhilcacharyaOP6y ago

I'd rather they do that here, thanks

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