So if they take a tax that levels the cost of the H1Bs and plow it back into US education and training, that goes towards fixing the problem.
But frankly, I doubt there IS a problem; there are many qualified hires here. They just want to use offshore hires living in poverty, to depress wages. As I have said before: if the employers want to subsidize the US costs of American workers, they can work for the same wages as these offshore hires. But that can’t happen, so just tax H1Bs so they end up as the the same cost as US workers. Then the tech companies can’t complain that they just can’t get the tech help they need.
There’s another reason Indians (NOT Americanized Indians…) are often hired (in addition to their low costs for putting up their families…) They tend to be a submissive culture; they do not push back. So when a C-suite comes to an American/Western worker and asks for something to be accomplished in an absurd amount of time (time=money…), they will tell their bosses it’s unrealistic. An Indian worker will sense they are being telegraphed that they must get it done in that amount of time, or else.
So what do these Indian workers do? They agree so that their pay keeps coming, and don’t deliver. They will deliver software that’s a Potemkin Village. I speak from personal technical experience; most Indian workers are great at testing software, but on development, they stink. The few that are good, guess what? They’re not stupid; they will charge nearly as much as American/Western workers.
So why does the C-suite go along with having their systems damaged? Because they will show a jump in revenue, get their stock options (like Brian Thompson…), and get the hell out of there to rinse+repeat at another company. The broken systems they left behind will be someone else’s problem. The workers have no such incentive to go along with crapping up the systems. If they work on a system that will be decommissioned in a year or two because it’s so broken, that will not be helping their next job searches!
A tech writer called John Dvorak had a great joke about Indian software: “If Indian software developers are so great, how come you don’t hear about Indian software [PRODUCT] companies??” (there a few product companies that exist, but you don’t hear about them <joke> -must be due to racism! </joke>)
I needed to explain this Indian offshoring phenomena, to dispel The Swami’s colossal racist horseshit about white developers being poor developers. It will be very interesting to see the hiring stats once H1s cost the same as American tech workers; but we may not get to see that if Trump continues on his trajectory to give the finger to hard-working MAGAs -he wants Musk’s bag 'o money REAL BAD!
