Re: "Starter Villain" by John Scalzi

On Sat, 10 May 2025 11:40:56 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/10/2025 11:14 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

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My solution, ironically, is tariffs. If there was a $50,000/year tariff
for each H1B brought in, companies would only bring in the actual 'best
of the best'.

 
This is true, but what about universities which may not have such
budgets?  I am thinking perhaps most of the people who really deserve
H1-B visas would be employed in academia or research.  But the idea
is not an unworkable one.\

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I wasn't really aware that researchers were using H1Bs. I thought there
was some kind of academic researcher visa. Some kind of provision could
be made for people working for non-profits, I suppose, but I'm sure it
would get messy at the edges.
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Still, it was and is pretty damn clear that companies are using the
H1B to get cheap, indentured labor, rather than pay wages necessary to
attract Americans to the jobs.
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Its another facet to the destruction of the middle class, as we drift
back towards a feudal model of society, with a thin scum of ultra-rich
floating on a sea of barely-surviving poor.

Well, IIRC, the French solved that problem a while back.

Perhaps we can borrow Madame La Guillotine from them for a while ...
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"