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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve tried to explain it to my friends - it really is damaging to US workers - and they all think I’m xenophobic.

Pretty much every major US company spends tons and tons on technology- more than the average person probably realizes because it’s not obvious how complicated back end tech stacks have become- and most of those people (often through foreign companies with a small US footprint) are offshore around the world with a small US based team that is often 50%+ foreign too because of h1b visas. I see it every day, and I see how carefully companies set things up so the extent of it is not obvious.

I am not anti immigrant. But when I hear of US kids spending 400k on college degrees and then struggling to find work, it bothers me.

Companies do not train people, there seems to be zero incentive. Why? [/quote]

Off shoring is the issue you are really talking about.  Having H1Bs or US citizens managing the off shoring doesn’t really result in many more jobs for American students.  It’s that entry level jobs are much cheaper off shore. And may be even more affected by AI.  [/quote]

You don’t work in tech, do you?

No it is both h1b and off shoring. And it is not just low level or ‘entry level’ jobs. Not even close. But AI in tech has been a huge thing for well over a decade now.

This is my point, it is a much bigger issue than people realize. H1b is part of the problem. There is no reason to invest in US workers to build the skills needed to supervise those off shore operations- which btw are not just entry level jobs anymore- when they can just hire an h1b who they can control more easily by virtue of the visa. [/quote]

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