I work in big tech and honestly never even thought this was a problem until now. Now my eyes have been opened. I have nothing against my Indian coworkers, but I agree with you, we shouldn't bringing in huge numbers of foreign immigrants and prioritize them over Americans who live and were born here.
I do believe there's a shortage of high skill workers in America. Confronting this problem head on, not taking the easy out (foreign labor), would force us to fix our broken education system. Since our primary schools largely act as a daycare/indoctrination camp for wokeism, we end up churning out hordes of poorly behaved idiots who are unable to contribute to society or culture in any meaningful way. Once we fix this maybe we'll get the type of talent we need.
It's an easy fallback to blame education, but that doesn't explain the guy in a job being forced to train his newly hired H1B replacement. I mean, he's already doing the job - there is no reason to bring anybody in, let alone somebody requiring training, aside from cost.
I'm astonished that anybody spending any time in tech hasn't seen this surface in terms of not only cost, but quality, at least a few times. I remember online discussion groups for certification prep study around 2011 were already filled with Indians trying to find ways to cheat the system, selling test banks, etc. PMI had to crack down hard after so many falsified applications to take their various tests started to eat away at their credibility. Guess where those "highly skilled" graduates usually wind up? Doing low end maintenance mode work that teams in your company probably wound up correcting, time and time again. There's a lot to blame to go around but there's no shortage of any Americans willing to do these mostly mid-tier jobs.
I've been in the trenches on this issue since Nov 26th when I first saw Amanda's thread & connected the dots. I would encourage you to talk to her and relay her experience to your readers
The issue is actually even more dire and serious than this though: yes, we need to put Americans first, but at the moment for many of these tech jobs Americans aren't even being considered
And these are the "best and the brightest" who worked through our crummy education system and came out the other side in good enough shape to actually have some technical qualifications. There are millions of great developers who have skills right now and are unable to even get a phone interview solely because they are US citizens and a bunch of Vivek's are convinced they're the wrong culture
How do I know? Because many of them have come to me asking for jobs after applying to thousands (literally, thousands, one guy filled out 1200 applications) and have gotten zero response. Zero. Then I connect them with a defense job or a cybersecurity position that is limited to US citizens and lo and behold! They get an interview! Not even a race thing, one guy is dominican, but since he's a US citizen he's fine
These companies are such snakes, they are lying to us all about having hiring freezes so we don't check the company website and apply ourselves or refer our friends. If we do, then there's a chance they could be reported to the DOL for violating the law regarding visa and greencard sponsorship
TLDR: we are not "competing" with foreign labor right now. We are flat out not even being considered and foreigners are getting the job due to corrupt, nepotistic and racist reasons. Also there's the whole compliance thing, our employers were big mad about US tech workers defying them on the vaccine mandate
Exactly. Being a US citizen with a security clearance is the modern equivalent to a union card. The only trade off is you have to accept helping the empire manufacture expensive weapons (that don't really work well) to go start more wars (we don't even win), to kill people (who's families turn into terrorists). What a country, eh?
Imagine being a young man told to go get that valuable STEM degree (using non-dischargable federal loans), so you can get a job. Then assuming you got one, being told one day that you're required to train your "highly skilled" replacement that the country "needs." Don't want to do that? Okay, well, bye-bye severance package and you're now being fired for cause, thereby cutting off unemployment compensation while you look for another gig. Simmer all you want, overpriced peon!
I'm genuinely surprised the first Luigi didn't go after a tech CEO first, but there's still plenty of time.
Americans need to take the bull by the horn and act local. Revitalize the small towns and create jobs and markets within each of them. Waiting on changes to global markets, the federal govt, and corporate America will be a long, long wait indeed.
The older generation will invest in a worthwhile cause with a real return if presented properly. And there will always be people in the younger generation willing to work, especially toward something meaningful. It's already playing out in many small towns across America. Don't just throw up your hands and quit, join in.
>The older generation will invest in a worthwhile cause
bullshit, they'll invest in the *highest return*, which in this case relates directly to the lowest labor cost. boomers have a vested interest in supporting unfettered immigration, low labor costs and high housing prices. your view of them as altruistic is completely naive.
What do you think about looking at this from an Corporate welfare angle? Governments should not be in the business of granting favoritism to certain Corporations and / or ethnic group.
Amen Mr. Lippencott. This is the best article I have seen on this topic - making the best insights. I think a separate expose on the nature of the alien wealth-by-wealth-confiscating-IPO executive (like Vivek R. and Balaji Srinivasan). I think a comprehensive expose would be a smash hit.
Nothing says more about America's decline and what poor Whites can do than the auto-didact boys of West Virginia who showed massive American grit, curiosity, work ethic, and raw genius in helping America get to space and power ICBMs.
Rocket Boys was the peak of America, and when we deport these grifters, outlaw porn and 24x7 sports and usury and rediscover God and communion with our local townsfolk we will do it again. It won't be a golden age until we get rid of the copper and even lesser metals.
P.S. Srinivasan is particularly interesting. He came he and used Stanford and IPOs and played the game. Has he stuck around and invested in Americans and America? He is advocating for the abolition of the state, accepts the decline and fall of Western Civilization as inevitable and non-problematic and spends his time getting our most ambitious to exit the system and be internationalists. Talk about a toxic influence. We used to call this treason. We also used to call this colonization. For this is what a colonizer is - a person of foreign domicile who comes and extracts your wealth and takes it elsewhere. He isn't the only one, but is a very good conversation starter and posterchild.
I work in big tech and honestly never even thought this was a problem until now. Now my eyes have been opened. I have nothing against my Indian coworkers, but I agree with you, we shouldn't bringing in huge numbers of foreign immigrants and prioritize them over Americans who live and were born here.
I do believe there's a shortage of high skill workers in America. Confronting this problem head on, not taking the easy out (foreign labor), would force us to fix our broken education system. Since our primary schools largely act as a daycare/indoctrination camp for wokeism, we end up churning out hordes of poorly behaved idiots who are unable to contribute to society or culture in any meaningful way. Once we fix this maybe we'll get the type of talent we need.
It's an easy fallback to blame education, but that doesn't explain the guy in a job being forced to train his newly hired H1B replacement. I mean, he's already doing the job - there is no reason to bring anybody in, let alone somebody requiring training, aside from cost.
I'm astonished that anybody spending any time in tech hasn't seen this surface in terms of not only cost, but quality, at least a few times. I remember online discussion groups for certification prep study around 2011 were already filled with Indians trying to find ways to cheat the system, selling test banks, etc. PMI had to crack down hard after so many falsified applications to take their various tests started to eat away at their credibility. Guess where those "highly skilled" graduates usually wind up? Doing low end maintenance mode work that teams in your company probably wound up correcting, time and time again. There's a lot to blame to go around but there's no shortage of any Americans willing to do these mostly mid-tier jobs.
Maybe I haven't seen it because I'm in enterprise sales and the foreign population is very small. Most of those folks are in engineering.
Great article Josiah
I've been in the trenches on this issue since Nov 26th when I first saw Amanda's thread & connected the dots. I would encourage you to talk to her and relay her experience to your readers
The issue is actually even more dire and serious than this though: yes, we need to put Americans first, but at the moment for many of these tech jobs Americans aren't even being considered
And these are the "best and the brightest" who worked through our crummy education system and came out the other side in good enough shape to actually have some technical qualifications. There are millions of great developers who have skills right now and are unable to even get a phone interview solely because they are US citizens and a bunch of Vivek's are convinced they're the wrong culture
How do I know? Because many of them have come to me asking for jobs after applying to thousands (literally, thousands, one guy filled out 1200 applications) and have gotten zero response. Zero. Then I connect them with a defense job or a cybersecurity position that is limited to US citizens and lo and behold! They get an interview! Not even a race thing, one guy is dominican, but since he's a US citizen he's fine
These companies are such snakes, they are lying to us all about having hiring freezes so we don't check the company website and apply ourselves or refer our friends. If we do, then there's a chance they could be reported to the DOL for violating the law regarding visa and greencard sponsorship
TLDR: we are not "competing" with foreign labor right now. We are flat out not even being considered and foreigners are getting the job due to corrupt, nepotistic and racist reasons. Also there's the whole compliance thing, our employers were big mad about US tech workers defying them on the vaccine mandate
Exactly. Being a US citizen with a security clearance is the modern equivalent to a union card. The only trade off is you have to accept helping the empire manufacture expensive weapons (that don't really work well) to go start more wars (we don't even win), to kill people (who's families turn into terrorists). What a country, eh?
Imagine being a young man told to go get that valuable STEM degree (using non-dischargable federal loans), so you can get a job. Then assuming you got one, being told one day that you're required to train your "highly skilled" replacement that the country "needs." Don't want to do that? Okay, well, bye-bye severance package and you're now being fired for cause, thereby cutting off unemployment compensation while you look for another gig. Simmer all you want, overpriced peon!
I'm genuinely surprised the first Luigi didn't go after a tech CEO first, but there's still plenty of time.
Americans need to take the bull by the horn and act local. Revitalize the small towns and create jobs and markets within each of them. Waiting on changes to global markets, the federal govt, and corporate America will be a long, long wait indeed.
easier wished than done when younger generations have no wealth and older generations care only about their investments.
The older generation will invest in a worthwhile cause with a real return if presented properly. And there will always be people in the younger generation willing to work, especially toward something meaningful. It's already playing out in many small towns across America. Don't just throw up your hands and quit, join in.
>The older generation will invest in a worthwhile cause
bullshit, they'll invest in the *highest return*, which in this case relates directly to the lowest labor cost. boomers have a vested interest in supporting unfettered immigration, low labor costs and high housing prices. your view of them as altruistic is completely naive.
Indeed. This is exactly why the issue is even being discussed - invest in a worthwhile cause. LMAO....
Sure, whatever you say. All boomers are bad, you are righteous and correct.
ah classic passive-aggressive boomer behavior. found one in the wild!
What do you think about looking at this from an Corporate welfare angle? Governments should not be in the business of granting favoritism to certain Corporations and / or ethnic group.
Amen Mr. Lippencott. This is the best article I have seen on this topic - making the best insights. I think a separate expose on the nature of the alien wealth-by-wealth-confiscating-IPO executive (like Vivek R. and Balaji Srinivasan). I think a comprehensive expose would be a smash hit.
Nothing says more about America's decline and what poor Whites can do than the auto-didact boys of West Virginia who showed massive American grit, curiosity, work ethic, and raw genius in helping America get to space and power ICBMs.
Rocket Boys was the peak of America, and when we deport these grifters, outlaw porn and 24x7 sports and usury and rediscover God and communion with our local townsfolk we will do it again. It won't be a golden age until we get rid of the copper and even lesser metals.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385333218?tag=bravesoftwa04-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1&language=en_US
Very well done. Bravo!
P.S. Srinivasan is particularly interesting. He came he and used Stanford and IPOs and played the game. Has he stuck around and invested in Americans and America? He is advocating for the abolition of the state, accepts the decline and fall of Western Civilization as inevitable and non-problematic and spends his time getting our most ambitious to exit the system and be internationalists. Talk about a toxic influence. We used to call this treason. We also used to call this colonization. For this is what a colonizer is - a person of foreign domicile who comes and extracts your wealth and takes it elsewhere. He isn't the only one, but is a very good conversation starter and posterchild.