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H1-Bs Are Silicon Valley Bailouts and Bad for Everyone
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I responded on my blog but here's a copy: http://impressmyself.co/post/103567486669/whats-xenophobic-a...
This article was written based on 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer for two very large companies. During that time, I have worked with many foreign contract workers, and every single one of them was from India or China.
A quick anecdote from that experience; two of the foreign workers that I worked with from India grew up in rural villages. Their families could not afford a television of their own, neither could any other family in their village. As a community they owned a single tube television (I can’t remember the size), they would all gather together in a single building (cafe I think) to watch soccer games.
While this isn’t mind blowing Somalian starve to death poverty, it is a major contrast to a US upbringing.
The vast majority of the foreign workers (that I worked with) were all paid about 1/3 as much as I was. Even if they brought the foreign workers to the US and paid for their living accommodations those workers made less money than I did. That’s why they hire them, because they cost a lot less money.
To be clear, I have in the past and I currently do call many foreign contract workers friends.
If the reader had read to the end of the article, he would see that I am for foreign workers, if they are guaranteed equal (or Reasonable) pay and equal rights.
Cherry picking a wealthy white immigrant that holds an executive position is not representative of the average foreign worker. If you can provide statistics that show the average foreign worker makes similar pay and works similar hours as their white counter parts, I would love to entertain your notion that these people are highly paid and don’t work in poor conditions.
What my experience has taught me is that (primarily) large corporations are taking advantage of foreign workers to lower wage and facility costs, which hurts both foreign workers and US workers.
You might retort, why would a foreign worker do something that is bad for them?
I think it’s their best option, but that doesn’t make it a good one. At this point I would be happy if the government would just enforce basic rights for foreign contract workers, even if they have lower pay. They often work far longer hours than is illegal, but the companies they work for turn their backs at best and at worst force them into it.
In closing, I’m not sure what’s xenophobic about wanting foreign workers to be treated with dignity and respect when they work for US companies. But if that’s xenophobic then put me on Fox News, cause I’m all for dignity, respect, and worker’s rights, whether they’re from the US or any other country.
In closing, I’m not sure what’s xenophobic about wanting Foreign workers to be treated with dignity and respect when they work for US companies. But if that’s xenophobic then put me on Fox News, cause I’m all for dignity, respect, and workers rights whether they’re from the US or any other country.
This article was written based on 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer for two very large companies. During that time, I have worked with many foreign contract workers, and every single one of them was from India or China.
A quick anecdote from that experience; two of the foreign workers that I worked with from India grew up in rural villages. Their families could not afford a television of their own, neither could any other family in their village. As a community they owned a single tube television (I can’t remember the size), they would all gather together in a single building (cafe I think) to watch soccer games.
While this isn’t mind blowing Somalian starve to death poverty, it is a major contrast to a US upbringing.
The vast majority of the foreign workers (that I worked with) were all paid about 1/3 as much as I was. Even if they brought the foreign workers to the US and paid for their living accommodations those workers made less money than I did. That’s why they hire them, because they cost a lot less money.
To be clear, I have in the past and I currently do call many foreign contract workers friends.
If the reader had read to the end of the article, he would see that I am for foreign workers, if they are guaranteed equal (or Reasonable) pay and equal rights.
Cherry picking a wealthy white immigrant that holds an executive position is not representative of the average foreign worker. If you can provide statistics that show the average foreign worker makes similar pay and works similar hours as their white counter parts, I would love to entertain your notion that these people are highly paid and don’t work in poor conditions.
What my experience has taught me is that (primarily) large corporations are taking advantage of foreign workers to lower wage and facility costs, which hurts both foreign workers and US workers.
You might retort, why would a foreign worker do something that is bad for them?
I think it’s their best option, but that doesn’t make it a good one. At this point I would be happy if the government would just enforce basic rights for foreign contract workers, even if they have lower pay. They often work far longer hours than is illegal, but the companies they work for turn their backs at best and at worst force them into it.
In closing, I’m not sure what’s xenophobic about wanting foreign workers to be treated with dignity and respect when they work for US companies. But if that’s xenophobic then put me on Fox News, cause I’m all for dignity, respect, and worker’s rights, whether they’re from the US or any other country.
In closing, I’m not sure what’s xenophobic about wanting Foreign workers to be treated with dignity and respect when they work for US companies. But if that’s xenophobic then put me on Fox News, cause I’m all for dignity, respect, and workers rights whether they’re from the US or any other country.
There are many highly skilled, highly paid immigrants in Silicon Valley who have made valuable contributions to the industry. Sir Jonathon Ive springs immediately to mind as one example.