in the absence of the H1-B visa program, some tens or hundreds of thousands of Americans would have jobs, but hundreds of millions Americans would be poorer. How's that for America First?
It’s been depressing to see so much ignorance and tribalism—especially aimed at Indians, who are among the highest performers and without whom America wouldn’t be what it is. Labeling anyone as ‘low-skilled’ is also short-sighted when in a free country people can quickly gain skills. E.g. Jensen Huang of Nvidia, whose parents would’ve been dismissed as ‘low-skilled’—you never know someone’s potential, especially if they come from a poor or repressive country.
It’s been amazing to see people who would (rightly) chuckle at leftists who argue for jacking up minimum wage laws by saying things like “if a business can’t afford to pay its workers at least $X/hr then it deserves to go out of business” take that exact argument and just swap a word here or there to make it say “if a business can’t afford to hire us natives then it deserves to go out of business.” And if one points out this cognitive dissonance they retreat to the fortress of “America is not just the GDP.”
It’s been depressing to see so much ignorance and tribalism—especially aimed at Indians, who are among the highest performers and without whom America wouldn’t be what it is. Labeling anyone as ‘low-skilled’ is also short-sighted when in a free country people can quickly gain skills. E.g. Jensen Huang of Nvidia, whose parents would’ve been dismissed as ‘low-skilled’—you never know someone’s potential, especially if they come from a poor or repressive country.
It’s been amazing to see people who would (rightly) chuckle at leftists who argue for jacking up minimum wage laws by saying things like “if a business can’t afford to pay its workers at least $X/hr then it deserves to go out of business” take that exact argument and just swap a word here or there to make it say “if a business can’t afford to hire us natives then it deserves to go out of business.” And if one points out this cognitive dissonance they retreat to the fortress of “America is not just the GDP.”