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Steve Bannon escalates MAGA civil war with call for ‘reparations’ over H-1B visas
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Steve Bannon is obviously a giant racist douchebag, but I do have to say H-1B isn't great. It basically lets companies rent foreign workers for cheap. What I would like to see instead is a program to grant citizenship to skilled workers and fast track their immigration status. Companies would hate that of course because then skilled people would be less willing to accept low-ball offers.
What I'd like to see is the idea of regional pay based on local cost of living being tossed out the fucking window worldwide and start trying to equalize pay worldwide.
People aren't and shouldn't be worth less based on geographic location or the language they speak or any other bullshit factor like that. It's always just been a worthless excuse for exploitation of whoever is available to exploit. It's why the US CIA has participated in economic terrorism to help prop up the US empire. If the US had always had to pay US equivalent wages to foreign workers, the great outsourcing would have never worked. It would protect US workers and pay foreign workers or immigrant workers what they're worth. Immigrants and foreign workers are fine, but they aren't worth less because of who they are.
I know people's fears about a world currency and shit, but for fucks sake, its just one of so many ways to have poor people worldwide at each others throats.
Hear hear. There's plenty of work to do, and it's only gotten easier to collaborate remotely as time goes by.
I say this as a hardware engineer, remote collaboration can and does work.
And the tools for communications between people who don't speak the same language have never been better.