Re: "Starter Villain" by John Scalzi

Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

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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.

There is an academic researcher visa... the H1B.  That's what it was
intended for before the big tech companies co-opted it.

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.

Yes, and it's not a good indenturement either.  It's not good for the
companies or the employees or the public in the long run.

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.

This will continue as long as we keep electing ultra-rich people to office,
regardless of party.
--scott

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