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The answer is easy: require all H1b salaries to be a minimum of a $500,000 per year.

If the person really is a star, the company will pay it.

If the company is really just trying to shortchange American workers, the person will not be hired.

Done.

Great Thread: Salary breakdown shows the vast number of H1Bs are for lower-middle band job ranges, not the top tier of elite experts.
https://x.com/RobertMSterling/status/1873174742129361084

Patrick Bet-David's H1B worker


Nobody in the State of Florida would do Graphic Design for Valuetainment ... at the price multimillionaire Bet-David wanted to optimally pay.

For the memes:

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

mell says

Trump has said forever that the H1B program is abuse and needs to at the minimum be severely curtailed if not abandoned

He says a lot of things.

Elon is coming around.

Trump should talk specifically about imposing a high wage requirement for H1B visas.

But as usual, Trump does not speak clearly enough.

Patrick says

But as usual, Trump does not speak clearly enough.

Sometimes, it's deliberate. Let them stew. Very Torunaga (Shogun, the Book)

Patrick says

Trump should talk specifically about imposing a high wage requirement for H1B visas.

But as usual, Trump does not speak clearly enough.

Oh @Patrick

AmericanKulak says

Sometimes, it's deliberate. Let them stew. Very Torunaga (Shogun, the Book)

It is deliberate. He is a sharp. And ruthless. Imo.

Elon is carpet-banning Twatter users who disagree with him on the H1B issue.

OUR KNIGHT OF FREE SPEECH IN SHINING ARMOR!!!!

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Patrick says

Trump should talk specifically about imposing a high wage requirement for H1B visas.

But as usual, Trump does not speak clearly enough.

Oh Patrick

He's backpedalling after getting a new asshole ripped on Twatter.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

This reads like that 90s paper did that I can't find anymore on the interwebs. Interestingly, someone I worked with in biotech sent it to me back in the day.

RWSGFY says

He's backpedalling after getting a new asshole ripped on Twatter.

I think it is because he got bitchslapped by the Trump peeps.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Its about management of people/society, as Edward Bernays, the pioneer and author of modern Propaganda said.

Booger says

Careful there, @Booger ->> https://patrick.net/comment?comment_id=2130306

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

The National Science Foundation published a secret report in the late 80s TRYING to push down the cost of PostDocs... H1B was the result.

Patrick says

American born and trained engineers are substantially better. One friend is retiring in January. He's got nationally recognized projects in road building.

The Hoover dam is just cool though. Been there about 5-6 times. Did the tour inside as a kid. Was there when the new bridge was being built. I can't even comprehend the engineering behind that build. Needed to be done though. I wasn't driving, but I can at least say I rode across the top of it in a car.

Aren't most H1B's tech sector anyway? I haven't met a infrastructure engineer from India or China. I know one Asian in that field, but he's an American citizen.

This cannot be America, this cannot be happening in America, no American can participate in this and call himself/herself American. If President Trump cares (he has already spoken in support of H1B), he should shut down H1B on January 20th and then revisit the program with Elon, Homan, Vivek etc.

WookieMan says

Aren't most H1B's tech sector anyway?

Tons in biotech.They can work as academic slave labor, but are always trying to get industry to sponsor them for a better paying job. Industry does not need them. There are plenty of qualified citizens looking for work.

WookieMan says

Aren't most H1B's tech sector anyway?

Nope. Because there isn't just a defined concentrated 'tech sector' anymore.

Like IT. H1B visa abuse is rife in an average non-tech sector firm's IT department. Famous case was a bunch of Disney parks IT folks forced to train their H1B replacements then shit canned.

There are IT departments in agriculture, retail, real estate, etc. now. And they all abuse the H1B bullshit.

The historical parallels with Roman plebes getting the can after Roman elites flooded the country with skilled slaves (nobody gave a rat's ass about the unskilled labor coming in - not even the plebians) are amazing to what is happening today.