So, doing business in the US is only good for you if you hire non-US workers? Not a lot of sympathy for that, really.
Folks in the office have to rent/buy property, buy food, supplies, etc, all from local workers too. Taxes are paid. You know, business.
Sauce for the goose == sauce for the gander
sauce for the goose==sauce for the gander
These other countries are free to try and improve their conditions. Trying to drag us down to their level is pathetic.
QED
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.
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.
The US skims some of the best students and programmers from around the world, but also people who are equivalent but cheaper, and also indentured.
Exactly. The latter needs to be shut off.
How do you know that?
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.
If they have trouble bringing people to the US, it's a bigger incentive to do so.
There are also good reasons to want to employ people who are 'closer to the client'. Plenty of places have engineers both in the US and elsewhere. Lots of companies just want to employ the best talent from wherever.
Make those things difficult though, and software is about the easiest industry to route the work abroad.
And as for the supply, everyone talks about US grads not going into STEM as if it's a law of nature. If salaries were allowed to keep going up during these temporary hot markets, more of the best and brightest would be attracted away from medicine/law (the current default choices for top students). STEM has always been a stepping-stone for the lower-middle class, not a particularly prestigious profession in my lifetime (at least compared to what someone of the same intelligence could have otherwise done). Now it is being turned into a stepping stone for the middle class from developing countries, again driving those domestic students away. (I work in education and see this every day).
I think you are failing to grasp that this is a global market for talent. Sure, being local helps some, but if the disparity is too great, companies will move. Also, there is not a fixed lump of labor to go around.
Also there needs to be sufficient talent available across all roles needed, to completely move the company to a new location. As opposed to just a lot at the low end of skills. The cost and other downsides of that move would also be immense.
Perhaps one day remote work will be far more common, and I think this would be a good thing, by the way. I also think brain drain is bad overall. Developing countries need those productive residents far more than the west does.