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  • jon-nycJ Online
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    jon-nyc
    wrote on last edited by jon-nyc
    #60

    Interesting question Though you’d have to net this against the jobs they help automate away.

    You were warned.

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    • LuFins DadL Offline
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      LuFins Dad
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      #61

      You realize that if they cut off the H1B Visas, there would be practically nobody left playing piano in the US. Right?

      The Brad

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      • LuFins DadL Offline
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        LuFins Dad
        wrote on last edited by
        #62

        This is like the whole “They’re eating the pets” issue. Young and educated American kids are not losing their employment opportunities to young and educated foreign nationals, though it is likely lowering the wage levels by 5% or so… They possibly are affecting older tech employees that once laid off have problems finding new opportunities, though that’s as much about new technologies passing them by as it is foreigners taking their jobs.

        But, at the same time, there are some abuses in the system that do need to be rectified and corrected…

        The Brad

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        • jon-nycJ Online
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          jon-nyc
          wrote on last edited by
          #63

          I thought this was funny. YMMV.

          https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DpM9ZswCX/?mibextid=wwXIfr

          You were warned.

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          • George KG Offline
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            George K
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            #64

            "Hinduphobia?"

            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            • jon-nycJ Online
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              jon-nyc
              wrote on last edited by
              #65

              I guess the Sikhs and the Jains are still fair game.

              Sorry Xenon.

              You were warned.

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              • X Offline
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                xenon
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                #66

                Oh that’s what makes racism fun for me… they never get it right.

                (Not that I’ve had a lot of overtly racist experiences)

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                • MikM Offline
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                  Mik
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                  #67

                  It would be interesting to know just how many people are overtly racist, to the point that it makes any difference in anyone's life. One cannot help but have biases shaped by their own experiences with others, but does it matter in practice? I'd say the great majority would fall in the no column.

                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                  • CopperC Offline
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                    #68

                    In college I played baseball in a city league and I coached a girl's softball team.

                    Both teams had games over in Dorchester, you drove from Roslindale through Roxbury to get there.

                    There were a couple red lights in Roxbury, if you stopped at the light there was maybe a 50/50 chance you would get stuff thrown at your car, bricks, bottles, whatever was laying around.

                    The guys throwing stuff at us were not the same race as us.

                    I hate to judge without all the facts, but I believe those guys were overtly racist.

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                    https://bestneighborhood.org/race-in-boston-ma/

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                    • MikM Offline
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                      wrote on last edited by
                      #69

                      Yes, certainly. But those are not the people being publicly accused of racism.

                      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                      • taiwan_girlT Online
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                        #70

                        Another "as good a place as any to post this". LOL

                        https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-02-17/india-s-tcs-misclassified-managers-to-skirt-h-1b-rules-former-staffers-say

                        Kini and two other former TCS employees who filed similar lawsuits say the company repeatedly made improper use of special manager-level visas to hire front-line workers who had no management responsibilities. All three cases, which were filed under the federal False Claims Act, were dismissed before the allegations of visa fraud were examined in court; Kini’s is on appeal. The manager visas, known as L-1As, are easier for employers to obtain and have fewer guardrails; for example, they lack even the minimal pay requirements that Congress has imposed for H-1B holders.

                        and

                        The H-1B program was designed to allow US employers to tap foreign nationals for jobs requiring highly skilled and difficult-to-find candidates. The visas, which impose rules related to educational requirements and pay, have proven popular for decades with employers; demand for them far outstrips the annual limit of about 85,000. In July, a Bloomberg News investigation revealed how outsourcing firms have overwhelmed the annual lottery that decides which applicants can get new H-1Bs.

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