• chisel@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    They can’t make up the difference, they pay them less than $100k. This could work out if it makes hiring H1Bs more expensive than hiring citizens. After all, the reasoning behind H1Bs is that the skills are so specialized that companies can’t find citizens to fill the positions, so it’s only logical that such skill would cost a premium (it doesn’t because it’s being abused to exploit immigrants and suppress wages for everyone).

    H1Bs are temporary, the workers are going back at some point. And with the job market as competitive as it is, do we really need to bring in more workers?

    I’m sure this will be astonishingly poorly implemented, if it ever gets past the “say random shit to distract from other issues” phase. But the core of the idea is solid.