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Another way to look at it is that the salaries of other workers are pegged to the salaries of H1B workers.

There is a way to improve this situation -- allow H1B workers to easily change employers.

Alternatively, employing an H1B requires paying into a tuition scholarship fund. $50k/year sounds reasonable to me.



I dunno, from the 98th percentile I’m not too anxious to move to 99th. I’m much more worried about losing my Chinese friends and colleagues.

And no amount of tuition assistance is going to make more than a handful of the kids I grew up with capable of this work.


I think it is quite likely that there are many people in the US who are smart enough but lack the $100k to go to university for 4 years. Not saying that immigration is bad, but there are many US citizens who could participate if they had education.

The US skims some of the best students and programmers from around the world, but also people who are equivalent but cheaper, and also indentured.


>The US skims some of the best students and programmers from around the world, but also people who are equivalent but cheaper, and also indentured.

Exactly. The latter needs to be shut off.


> And no amount of tuition assistance is going to make more than a handful of the kids I grew up with capable of this work.

How do you know that?




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