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I'm one, actually. I run a bootstrapped business, and would be contributing a bunch of revenue to the US treasury if there was a clearcut visa class for me. As it is I'm happily in Canada, exporting products to Americans and spending the proceeds in Canada.
There are a LOT of issues with the specific's of Graham's essay, but many replies treated it as if letting in more people was per se a bad thing, no matter how it is implemented.
How so? I wrote this to refute a lot of the mistakes I see on these immigration discussions, so if you can list specifics, I'd be appreciative.
Your essay was clear!
If you work in SV surrounded by top H1B talent, then you have a myopic view of how H1B is being used in bottom 80% of the IT talent pool.
The rest of us working in corporate IT know that vast majority of H1B is used as a vehicle for labor arbitrage.
They are paid prevailing wage? Please. I once had a guy who was getting paid $29/hour because two consulting companies were double dipping into $78/hour rate.
Why is this hypocritical? Hypocritical of what?
It's not just hypocritical, it's plain wrong, as I explain in the linked article.
> They are paid prevailing wage? Please. I once had a guy who was getting paid $29/hour because two consulting companies were double dipping into $78/hour rate.
So let those people switch jobs easily and they'll start demanding market rates in short order, if they're worth it. If they're not worth it, so what? They're not going to "depress wages" any more than having more farm workers is going to depress programmer wages.
Of course it should work the other way too. People need to be free to leave.
However the talk about labor marker is bad. We need to have an economy where, cooperation, not competition, is rewarded.
I can't wait for the day wages become as antiquated as the idea of kings and serfs and the idea of a labor market is as strange as the market for slaves.