We went viral showing every H-1B LCA filing since 2015. India made up >70%.
Now we drill down.
Just India. Just the top 15 employers.
~1M filings from these 15 alone (of ~5M total Indian LCAs).
5 counties absorbed 33% of those.
4 big tech. 11 middlemen. Anyone surprised?
The H-1B visa program was originally intended to bring in foreign workers only when Americans aren’t available. Instead, corporations have exploited it to replace American workers with cheaper foreign labor.
I’m urging the Department of Labor to raise the wage floors that make this abuse profitable. When the financial incentive disappears, so does the scheme.
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@beamerboyjared You can't fight this battle yourself. Join @ustechworkers and, together, we can make sure that you and the rest of the next generation will be able to find work
This is more than a little concerning, since he is behind much of the technology we are forking our society over to ... And since he has direct connections to the Trump White House ... What does he know? ... https://t.co/nBpX2RnMK7
@JustRaging01 This is the biggest issues hiding in the shadows now - but will jump out, when the stock market tanks, and reveal itself to be a hulking grotesque beast that will shake our institutions to its knees
Boomers be boomering ... This is a great post about trying to describe to boomers about what's happening in the modern workplace to young workers ... At the end of the day, they don't even want to talk about it ... "The goal is simply to have an excuse to avoid thinking about something which might make them feel bad."
On the surface, it sounds like Boomers hate you. Or like they have the attention span and logical thinking skills of a goldfish.
Neither one of these is true.
Their complete dismissal of any of your concerns, and their total refusal to understand your situation or worldview, is actually quite sensible in light of one key fact about them.
They're not hateful. They're not dumb. They just have an incredibly low emotional pain threshold.
They cannot stand to feel bad about themselves for any reason, even for a moment.
When you create a meme like this, or you tell the story of how you are forty years old and can't afford a house because you trained for three different careers and got rugpulled by work visas and offshoring every time...
... then they don't even think about it as a worldview or a perspective or an experience that you have. They don't think about you at all.
They think only about the effect on their own self-esteem, which must be parried.
You have, you see, told a tale of playing life on hard mode, which implies that they were playing life on easy mode, which implies that they are not wizards of insight and paragons of virtue.
That's why they will immediately respond with these incoherent lines about whining and bootstraps and firm handshakes and avocado toast. Of course they don't make sense. They don't have to make sense. The goal isn't to persuade you of anything or engage with you at all.
The goal is simply to have an excuse to avoid thinking about something which might make them feel bad.
These Boomerisms are magic talismans used to ward off emotional discomfort, in much the same fashion as all the species of plants they smoked their way through when they were your age.
I don't see a solution to this.
I don't know any way to tell Boomers that Hart-Cellar, CRA1964, DEI, open borders, social welfare programs, anti-racism, gay marriage, gun control, the sexual revolution, etc, were massive mistakes and need to be stopped, while hiding the obvious implication they were the ones who made those mistakes.
If we wish to save Western civilization, to make things good enough again that actual Americans can manage to have homes and marriages and children, then we're going to have to find a way to work around the Boomers, because they're never going to get on board.