U.S. tech layoffs sent Indian workers home to an even worse job market

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19 points·Brajeshwar··6 comments

That's rough but another study shows that 90% of h1b workers found other jobs.

https://fortune.com/2023/05/26/90-of-laid-off-h1-b-visa-hold...

Layoffs are supposed to be agnostic to national background. Maybe there is something there lawsuit wise but that would be a longer term issue. Also the top 13 h1b employers are outsourcing firms apparently.

https://www.epi.org/blog/tech-and-outsourcing-companies-cont...

Of the 200K workers laid off in the past year why are close to 40% according to the article Indian? In the US a predominately non-Indian country where Indians make up 1.35% of the population almost half of the laid off were from a single nationality. What factors explain these statistics?

There are a very large number of trained tech workers in India & good business networks for getting them to the U.S. where their skills are highly valued.

Are we supposed to feel compassion about some very priviledged and very lucky individuals when 12% of India's 1.4 Billion people is below the poverty line of $2.15 a day ?

That's $784 a year. They probably saved that amount each week working in the US.

Yes. We should still be compassionate for the suffering of others even if their suffering isn’t as severe as the suffering of some.

See the key here is that I do not buy that they are "suffering". They are just in a less priviledged position than before.

They are still very wealthy and priviledged individuals with great professional prospects in India. Allow me to prioritise my compassion list, and put them at the bottom, in the name of the hundreds of millions that are literaly hungry.

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