Reality check: Trump pledged to end the program in 2016.

Called it. When push comes to shove, Trump is always going to side with the ultra-rich.

  • @FabledAepitaph
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    144 days ago

    350 million people in the US and none of them are talented enough for this guy. The government had 350 million chances to educate and professionalize, and here we are outsourcing to India because Musk isn’t happy with the current crop.

    Lmao

    • @lepinkainen
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      73 days ago

      H1B workers kept Twitter from imploding. They couldn’t quit unless they had a new job lined up. They couldn’t complain about having to sleep in the office or they might get deported.

      Native US workers could just walk out.

      This is why Muskrat loves visa workers

    • @[email protected]
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      114 days ago

      That’s because this crop doesn’t want to work for tree fiddy and on 4h of sleep every day. How is he gonna wipe his tears with money if he has to pay people?

    • @bitchkat
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      84 days ago

      We don’t want to work for him or for what he’s offering.

    • @Chip_Rat
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      74 days ago

      And of course is has nothing to do with talent and training at all, the US (and many others) created the system where you put yourself into huge debts to get the education the companies need from you, and then they also don’t want to pay you a wage that will allow you to live comfortably and crawl out of that debt.

      So then they buy the government and arrange for people with similar education, who are more desperate, less informed of labour laws and unable to switch jobs when they get here.

    • @[email protected]
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      34 days ago

      Right?

      Let there be no mistake, it’s not about talent so much as it is about keeping wages low. Many tech companies do this explicitly, especially since interest rates rose and investing money stopped being free.

      Anecdotally, I was at a company and was instructed not to hire in the US. I could choose Montréal, a few countries in Europe, or Isreal.

      US was off limits, not enough budget.

      • @CharlesDarwin
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        24 days ago

        Many of them have been doing this shit since the 90s. When I read about how “we no find coderz in the U.S!” I know it’s complete horse manure. I suppose there are some niche fields where it might actually be hard to source certain types of engineers or what have you.

        But seriously, programming? You cannot find that locally? GTFO with that…

        For a brief blip there I hoped that agent orange might actually blow up H-1B, even if for the wrong reasons, but this outcome (moneyed interests calling the tune) is entirely expected, I guess. Even if his racist base haaaaaates it.