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If you get deported into a prison camp by accident, the same officials will write a letter of formal apologies to your loved ones.

Well, more tech talent for India and China it seems.

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What, in crayon? Expect victim blaming, not apologies.

More like "sorry, this should not have happened. It still happened, but now we can't do anything. We take full responsibility, but nothings gonna change".

You had me up until “we take full responsibility”. This administration is much more about darvo response when they’re caught doing something wrong.

“ DARVO stands for "Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender," which is a tactic used by abusers to avoid accountability by denying their wrongdoing, attacking the victim, and claiming to be the real victim. This manipulation can make it difficult for others to discern the truth and often leads to the victim feeling blamed for the abuse they experienced”

thots and prayas'

“ Well, more tech talent for India and China it seems.”

Not if the US has any way to prevent that.

How so? With more isolationist policies? Coercion?

Sure, Trump could make Nvidia invest 5b into Intel. But that's only pacifying the shareholders among his cronies. It doesn't regenerate the company or bring back the burnt bridges and lost talent.

With policies that essentially make it more expensive to effectively divert offshore. I don’t care how it happens as much as its goal of giving citizens effective first refusal.

It might not play well with the infinite guest worker crowd, but it gets tiring to see generations having the same experience that has extended back into at least the early 2000s.

Yes, where "talent" = generic java developers writing CRUD apps for internal business functions.

Let's assume it really is only about code monkeys. Those asian code monkeys won't demand silly things like... unionization or decent living conditions. They are less likely to have problems with creating autonomous weapon systems that integrate facial recognition.

But it's not about those people. It's about experts in IT infrastructure, AI, researchers, etc. Those kind of people don't fall from trees and know that their expertise is well sought after. And if the US is not a safe or attractive choice, they go elsewhere. Simple as that.

Those types of people can get O-1 visas.

If you think H-1Bs are exploitative and lower working conditions, O-1s are much more so: O-1s aren’t portable between employers _and_ don’t have prevailing wage requirements.

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