Post #3332615
2026-06-08 19:51 UTC
The H1-B visa system is a trash system.
It is intended to cover cases where companies can’t find a domestic talent pool that meets their needs.
In reality, it’s a way for companies to import cheap labor, then hold their visas over their heads to drive down wages.
It should be prohibitively expensive to outsource work to foreign labor. Instead, it’s cheaper, which is why the system is being abused, and why tacking an effective tax on that labor was good.
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@ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2026-06-08 20:14
Except $100,000 is a pittance to any company big enough to be importing cheap labor in the first place. These are companies that shrug off billion-dollar fines, they have $100k in the executive boardroom couch cushions, so it’s absolutely worth it for them to pay $100k to the government in exchange for getting a $50k per year discount on labor for that role.