Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agocheap indentured labor from Taiwan
The extremely well-paid and literally best-on-the-planet chip manufacturers? The highly skilled engineers with years of education and expertise, who continuously outpace the achievements of much larger companies and nations? The ones who work in a narrow field that doesn’t actually matter for jobs reports, because they’re such a small group of experts and the real gain in jobs for the economy would be the labor involved in building the fabs for them?
Calling them “cheap indentured labor” is just casual xenophobia.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sounds like you have no clue about the abuse endured by H1B recipients in this country.
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
H1B recipients are horribly abused, true. But that’s because they’re used the way capitalism uses everyone it considers replaceable - grind them down and move onto the next. Doesn’t apply to - again - the literally best-on-the-planet engineers. They’re not coding for Xitter, they can walk at any time and find employment and citizenship elsewhere.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No, they often can’t. That’s one of the worst abuses imposed upon them.
frezik@midwest.social 3 days ago
Engineers from Taiwan that have chip design skills? Yes, they can walk at any time.
You’re taking a general case of H1B visa abuse–which is completely valid in broad terms–and applying it to a specialized case where the materials conditions are different.