And if it does, all those megacorps will simply enhance their offshore development centers. They’ll not hesitate to fuck over the h-1b holders, who are mostly perfectly nice and normal people just like everyone else. Heck, most of the ones I’ve met were really nice.
They’ll not hesitate to fuck over the h-1b holders
This is the entire point of the system. It’s to make them beholden to the company and entirely disposable. It’s also set up to be rampantly ageist. What happens after the 3/6 year term is up? Well, time to replace you with a new one, probably younger, because Jebus forbid we pay you market rates for your seniority! Away with you…
A far more healthy option would be to offer full citizenship to the workers we supposedly cannot source locally. That doesn’t put the company in the driver’s seat. It would benefit America, though, by having this talent come here, grow roots, and enrich the nation. We want to encourage smart people to come here and be full participants, not indentured servants that only stay here on a company’s whim. Hell, more than a few might even start businesses of their own, and in this free market system, aren’t we supposed to be celebrating that?
Honestly, if Taco were to just unconstitutionally declare tariffs on random countries and at random levels, we could do worse than having services like offshoring heavily tariffed.
There is no reason that work cannot be done here, most especially if we have people in IT looking for work. This is one area where jobs can and would be done locally, without drastic retooling, retraining, and building out infrastructure, unlike the kind of things Taco has been doing on a whim to manufacturing and farming.
I make that point every time the Trumpers in my family rail on about the small number of manufacturing jobs we might see come back due to tariffs. Outsourced jobs are in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, and none of them require massive infrastructure re-shoring to get off the ground.
If a company can’t profit without offshoring jobs, they don’t need to exist. There are plenty of companies ready to fill that gap with people that live and work onshore, and plenty of people with entrepreneurial spirit ready to start new companies when they aren’t competing with labor making 10% of what someone here would make to do the same job.
Make it a million.
Also, I doubt this will actually happen.
And if it does, all those megacorps will simply enhance their offshore development centers. They’ll not hesitate to fuck over the h-1b holders, who are mostly perfectly nice and normal people just like everyone else. Heck, most of the ones I’ve met were really nice.
This is the entire point of the system. It’s to make them beholden to the company and entirely disposable. It’s also set up to be rampantly ageist. What happens after the 3/6 year term is up? Well, time to replace you with a new one, probably younger, because Jebus forbid we pay you market rates for your seniority! Away with you…
A far more healthy option would be to offer full citizenship to the workers we supposedly cannot source locally. That doesn’t put the company in the driver’s seat. It would benefit America, though, by having this talent come here, grow roots, and enrich the nation. We want to encourage smart people to come here and be full participants, not indentured servants that only stay here on a company’s whim. Hell, more than a few might even start businesses of their own, and in this free market system, aren’t we supposed to be celebrating that?
Honestly, if Taco were to just unconstitutionally declare tariffs on random countries and at random levels, we could do worse than having services like offshoring heavily tariffed.
There is no reason that work cannot be done here, most especially if we have people in IT looking for work. This is one area where jobs can and would be done locally, without drastic retooling, retraining, and building out infrastructure, unlike the kind of things Taco has been doing on a whim to manufacturing and farming.
I make that point every time the Trumpers in my family rail on about the small number of manufacturing jobs we might see come back due to tariffs. Outsourced jobs are in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, and none of them require massive infrastructure re-shoring to get off the ground.
If a company can’t profit without offshoring jobs, they don’t need to exist. There are plenty of companies ready to fill that gap with people that live and work onshore, and plenty of people with entrepreneurial spirit ready to start new companies when they aren’t competing with labor making 10% of what someone here would make to do the same job.