Misruption: “Software is eating the moral compass”
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>H1B immigrant labor from India has clearly become a "strategic" sourcing model for tech giants as in the past 2 years as both Microsoft & Google have appointed CEOs and other executives from India--while backing open borders, pro H1B tech lobby FWD.us.
Does the author really think the two Indian ex-pats were made CEOs of respective companies because of their country of origin?
(I personally think Nadella's an excellent CEO)
Oh FFS. Stopped reading there. I don't know what incentives are there for hiring immigrants. Immigration is hard and you end up with a less flexible employee. Immigrants are getting hired because they're people, and they happen to be people who are qualified for the jobs.
Somebody should fork their site and edit out all the Falling Down (1993 film) moments.
You can't help others when you, firstly, don't help yourself.
Non-American here.
However, I still find it strange to think someone who happens to be born inside the borders of America somehow deserves a job more than someone born outside the borders.
It always seems quite arbitrary - I mean, I am also a Californian, but I don't get upset if someone hires a Floridian instead of a Californian. I live in Los Angeles, but I don't get upset if someone hires a person from San Diego.
I guess I think of society as being larger than the state these days. I can interact with, share, befriend, and work with people in another country just as quickly and easily as I can with someone living in the same country (case in point, this conversation here). Our state borders do not define our society.
Some of the most talented, smartest and hardest working folk I've met hold h1bs, so I'm not opposed to the idea by any means, just the current state and the implementation that got us here. Those same guys also say that they feel like they're pinned to jobs they often loathe since they'll be kicked out of the country if they quit - even after getting a degree here.
Now, the question is, why are tech companies asking for an expansion of the H1B program rather than simply asking for more green cards? The answer, of course, is that H1Bs are easier to abuse and underpay.
This isn't a simple case of "immigrants stealing our jobs." The H1B program does a lot to suppress tech wages, and I'd like to see the path to citizenship eased. I don't see any reason companies should be able to keep guest workers in the country for more than a couple years before sponsoring them for a full green card.
If we need more workers then we need more citizens, cut and dry. There shouldn't be this grey in-between - it is a crack that too many fall through.
What?! It isn't like the money used in a stock buyback just disappears from the economy. That money will be turned around and invested in some other company, that might actually needs money and has a purpose to use it for. That is how the economy works.
It is much better at a macroeconomic level for a company to return cash that it doesn't feel it can efficiently use to its investors, rather than try to chase some investment that won't have a good return just because you have the money.
This whole site seems pretty lacking in terms of understanding of how things work.
> Think of us as your 'side project' to drive better corporate citizenship in big tech.
And now we know why their list of sins doesn't include unpaid/underpaid internships as gateways to employment that few outside of well of backgrounds can afford to take?
:)
Sponsorship "means we've got your back, and we'll shine our light on any and all unfair & harmful competitive practices that unethically impede your growth."
But I like the word! Disruption that's malicious, or creates more issues than it solves.
Then again, not sure I know of any actual misruption - closest I can think of is the lack of career for Uber/Lyft drivers, and that Oculus will cause eye issues in kids and the VR industry learned that in the 80s.
Arguments of sophistry and nationalism are not data, but bias. None deserve preference for the accident of birth. Over the whole course of the human experience, the idea of nation is a distinction sans difference.
I see this initiative is run by luddites.