[TriLUG] OT: PT One tech issue from tonight's debate

[Aaron Joyner]

Joe, did you see the other thread I posted this morning?  The one
where I'm actively recruiting for people to do highly skilled work?
Please note that I in no way speak for my employer with respect to
this issue, but a quick google search for 'google h1b'
(http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Google/225093.htm) indicates
we do hire quite a few foreign workers, at attractive salaries, and
currently we're *only* allowed to do that when we can't find a US
citizen to fill the position.  If you believe we, or anyone else,
would game that system, *please* make us stop.  *Please* apply, and I
promise you we'll work together to make the world a better place.  :)
If, on the other hand, we can't find enough US citizens to make self
driving cars or build artificial intelligences to solve tomorrow's
problems... should we give up on making the world a better place?
Should we employee that talent in disparate offices in other
countries, slowing communication (and thus innovation) by removing the
high-bandwidth face-to-face communication and depriving the US of that
salary being taxed and spent in this country?

Aaron S. Joyner


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Scott Chilcote wrote:
>
>> On 10/17/2012 09:14 AM, William Sutton wrote:
>>>
>>> Ugh, politics.
>
>
> the companies who want foreign workers, are not doing so to make the country
> stronger, as other people have suggested.
>
> They just want cheap labor. They are not hiring the best and the brightest.
> They are hiring regular people to do the grunt work. Alan Greenspan was one
> of the originators of this process. He declared that salaries for US IT
> workers were too high and it would cause social disruption in the US for
> such a large slice of the workforce to be seen having such large salaries.
> (As well all know, the high salaries of financial people don't cause social
> disruption.) The cure was cheap foreign labor.
>
> Joe
>
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