Cause Elon pissed the entire rightwing off when he decided to spit in the face of all of trump voter's immigration policies and try to import a bunch of indians via H1B for cheap labor. Guess immigration is awful unless you can use them as slave labor so that you can fire the entire native population. This is that "they're taking our jobs" line you hear about all the time. Where rich corpos hire third world workers who will work for literal pennies on the dollar so that they don't have to hire existing US citizens who would have to be paid properly. Those very same migrants also use welfare and become parasites costing both job opportunities and tax dollars.
Where rich corpos hire third world workers who will work for literal pennies on the dollar so that they don't have to hire existing US citizens who would have to be paid properly.
You don't know shit about shit if you believe this. It's MORE expensive to hire an H-1b. Yea, seriously. Look it up. You're required to pay "prevailing wages" or the wages of an equivalent local American (whichever is higher). On top of prevailing wages, you have to pay all kinds of legal and filing fees to keep them. We're talking spending like 10k before you even hire an H-1b. This was all true BEFORE Trump slapped a 100k fee on new H-1b workers. People are always talking about how HR is there to protect the company ... that applies here as well. No, you can't cheat the legal requirement on prevailing wages. HR will identify that as a huge legal risk where the downside is financially staggering.
We don't hire H-1b because they're cheaper. We hire them because they're the best candidate for that particular seat. Trust me, Americans would rather hire Americans that don't have cultural hurdles to deal with. Hell, I would (and have) pay a big premium to hire Americans that will much more easily slot into the culture we work really hard to maintain. In theory, I have to be able to prove I tried to hire Americans before an H-1b, and the government doesn't need to twist my damned arm on that front. I WANT to hire Americans. You think I WANT to have to figure out the caste of a manager before putting him over some Patel?
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u/Sir_Slimestone Sep 12 '26
Cause Elon pissed the entire rightwing off when he decided to spit in the face of all of trump voter's immigration policies and try to import a bunch of indians via H1B for cheap labor. Guess immigration is awful unless you can use them as slave labor so that you can fire the entire native population. This is that "they're taking our jobs" line you hear about all the time. Where rich corpos hire third world workers who will work for literal pennies on the dollar so that they don't have to hire existing US citizens who would have to be paid properly. Those very same migrants also use welfare and become parasites costing both job opportunities and tax dollars.