72% comes from India specifically. Not Central America and South America, not Africa or Asia. Just one country.
This is enlightening. Locked to a company by virtue of your visa. Working without pay while waiting for your visa.
I can see why these working class hating CEOs like these visas. You get talent while bypassing some of those pesky American labor laws.
And we on turn have to outsource for this talent because the university positions are outsourced to other countries, in part, no doubt, because we can’t afford them.
Another motive to not subsidize education. The cycle of taking advantage of masters degrees would end.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The people who get H1Bs aren’t representative of the world, but the native-born tech worker population isn’t representative of the USA either. There are cultural factors involved, not just the judgement of the people who issue H1Bs.
The idea that DEI programs are for the benefit of Indian and Chinese people is, frankly, nonsense. Hasn’t the author heard of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard? It’s kind of a big deal.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
As someone in IT (but not a tech company), Indians don’t really count as diversity anymore. There are a ton of them already. I would estimate there are 3-4x as many Indians as there are women (of any race)
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Stop calling it diversity if you mean minority. Diversity means a variety of people from different backgrounds. So some Indians on a team do count as diversity, as long as the group itself is diverse. Every ethnicity can count towards diversity.