Comment Re: America is a 25% functional unemployment (Score 1) 189
My perspective is that they're trying to get the same talent for less money. If it didn't save money compared to doing something else, or if they didn't at least think it did, they wouldn't do it. This isn't even complicated, it's business.
It used to be that business worked with education in order to foster the kinds of skills that would be needed in the future, then trained employees for specific jobs as needed. But the quality doesn't drop enough for the average customer to notice when they use the current method of firing long-term employees in favor of some new guy who has the new thing on his resume already. This is the only thing needed to explain why it's all outsourcing and H1Bs. Nobody wants to invest in a country any more, all of the corporations think they're above such petty things... until a war starts for economic reasons they caused.