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Comment Re: If companies are bringing people over (Score 1) 65

Almost all H1Bs are indeed paid significantly less than US Citizen equivalents.

No*.

First link:
That is illegal. A case of malfeasance does not say anything to the overwhelmingly legal use of the program.
Second link:
A lawsuit is not evidence.
Third link:
This is an article about contracting firm H1-B use.
It in itself specifies no wrongdoing whatsoever (or lower payment)

Try again.
In the meantime,
Some reading for you.

* There are certain metrics of "equivalent" that can (and have) been used to draw a disparity, but they are inherently flawed.
They generally use metrics like "age", and "education", rather than job, and years of experience

Comment Re:Global (Score 1) 65

Are you stupid? Honest question, because I really think you might be.

Why do Republicans speak of "bringing manufacturing back"? Because it's a fucking political football.
What does that have to do with the fact that we are the second largest manufacturer in the world, and the fact that our per-capita manufacturing output is 2,000% higher than the current leader in world manufacturing?

Look at it this way, if 100% of the US was employed in manufacturing, and 100% of China was employed in manufacturing, the US would out-produce China. By a lot.
This is just simple math.

Politicians want to "bring it back" because our manufacturing because all of the people who lost their jobs to cheaper Chinese labor also happen to vote.
None of that has anything to do with the stupidity of the claim:

Plus, the U.S. cannot produce all that it needs, manufacturing-wise. And the U.S. does not have enough people to even bother trying.

Comment Re:Impacts on India (Score 1) 65

That's the wrong denominator.

That depends on what we're measuring.

There are 3-4 million IT workers in the Indian contracting companies

Ya, we can use those as the denominator if you prefer.

and not all of them are the technical workers that would be considered for an H1B. 60,000 out of 3-4 million is a pretty good chance.

No, it's not. If you tried every single year for your entire working life, there's still a 25% chance you wouldn't make it.
If you tried for just 20 years, there's a 66% chance you wouldn't make it.

That's like a 1 out 50 chance of getting to immigrate to the US with your family, and you get that chance every year.

See above.

Aside from all this, "in the Indian contracting companies" is a ridiculous criteria that shaves between 50%-60% off of the real denominator, which is just Indian IT workers.

Comment Re:JPMorgan Says $100K 'Prices Out H-1B' (Score 1) 65

"No It Didn't" Everyone is welcome to have their own opinions.

Except mine is backed by facts.
H1-Bs are not paid less than Americans. This is a fact.
The cost to a company to hire an H1-B is higher than that for a domestic worker. The fact is, we're already employing all of the high-skilled domestic workers we can. Those that we are not employing tend to be shit, who refuse to work for what they're really worth.
If you got rid of them all today, you wouldn't somehow bring back hiring of US workers for those salaries. We'd already be employing them if they were worth it.

"damage the system" Not sure what damage being an independent contractor for over 35+ years did.

Because I presumed you voted for this shit. If I'm wrong about that, I apologize.

Comment Re:Global (Score 1) 65

Plus, the U.S. cannot produce all that it needs, manufacturing-wise. And the U.S. does not have enough people to even bother trying.

Lot of stupid comments coming out of the peanut gallery, today.

The US is the second largest manufacturer in the world.
On a per-capita basis, it's the largest by an overwhelming amount.
If the US doubled its manufacturing workforce, it would be manufacturing 400% more than China.

Comment Re:Impacts on India (Score 1) 65

We're talking about 60,000 Indians sent to the US every year. That's not a small chance of being able to immigrate to the US.

60,000 is a raw number. It has no context.
I'll give you some.
1,451,000,000.

Yes, that's a microscopic chance of being able to immigrate to the US.

Comment Re:Where is the break point? (Score 2) 65

H1-B workers do not work for less.

You are, however, correct that the stipulations that come with an H1-B that lead to revoking the Visa is akin to indentured servitude.

Ultimately- pricing out the imported help is not going to change the fact that the US doesn't have what companies need. They're just going to outsource it.

Comment Re:JPMorgan Says $100K 'Prices Out H-1B' (Score 1) 65

The current model prices out US IT workers.

No, it doesn't.

Oh well, I turn 70 on Saturday and I figure to have my last remaining business client migrated to a new provider by the end of the year.

I'm glad you got to damage the system before you left it.

Comment Re:Workers still at the company claim they are inc (Score 4, Insightful) 47

The fact that they're training AI with another AI would point towards them getting high on their own supply. So high they forgot about GIGO, so this probably isn't being pushed by engineers.

You'd think that even the suits would be familiar with the phrase "model collapse" though. It's new and cool.

Comment Re:Growing body of evidence of damage to humans (Score 1) 17

China has been cultivating markets in the past few decades, but with the type of heavy control people typically describe as "Communist", especially when anyone suggests a similar arrangement be implemented in the US.

Capitalism didn't fix Russia either. It was a very bleak place in the 90s, having a Pizza Hut did not improve their lives much. An oil boom provided a bit of enrichment for them in the 2000s, but there was a dictatorship and oligarchy in place, which clawed all that back from the people within a decade.

Reconstruction in the US was at the very beginning of the first Industrial Revolution and I'm not sure anything from that era is relevant to an industrialized economy.

"Socialism" just seems to mean whatever you want it to mean, but always something scary and very bad.

Comment Re:Growing body of evidence of damage to humans (Score 1) 17

It has many of the characteristics of nuclear fallout - disperses throughout the entire environment, the whole body, where it may take decades to cause disease.

Probably we didn't realize how dangerous it was because it's not apparent until it becomes persistent in the environment. With a high enough dose radiation sickens you immediately, and does all kinds of other weird things, we realized it was dangerous not long after it was discovered. (Yes, I know it took decades for the general public to catch up to the science.)

This shit needs to be removed from our presence starting yesterday. We need clear guidelines for people on which types of food and drink container to avoid, and strict regulations on the producers to minimize the amount of microplastics in the food. Probably also HEPA filters in our homes, cars, and offices, given that you breathe it in too.

Comment Re:No news (Score 1) 60

What's new is that the AI is being pushed directly to kids ("homework help") in a context where they are most definitely going to be tempted to use it.

The product has been designed to lure kids who otherwise may not have cheated. It's designed to make the kids beholden to the product, unable to learn or function without it. Addicted.

It's disgusting, and it's critical that people know about it. It is news. The fuck is wrong with you?

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