Bear Ribs
Well-known member
Yeah... I've had conversations with various Silicon Valley types and it becomes apparent where their real interests lie quite quickly. "Americans won't do farm work" (They say to somebody who did farm work), we have to import labor there, just no other choice. Yeah, Mexican housekeepers means you're providing jobs for minorities so it's a net good. Nurses? We need immigrants to do that, there's just not enough nurses in the country," Then you mention H1B and suddenly they're filled with distaste at those foreigners coming to steal their jobs (couched in terms of their unsuitability, generally).
They're all for immigrant labor coming to do jobs they have to pay for so it drives their personal costs down but highly against any immigrant labor doing their own jobs and driving their personal wages down, all while insisting that immigrant labor doesn't really compete and won't drive wages down.
They're all for immigrant labor coming to do jobs they have to pay for so it drives their personal costs down but highly against any immigrant labor doing their own jobs and driving their personal wages down, all while insisting that immigrant labor doesn't really compete and won't drive wages down.