It's so fucking revealing that the Tech industry's line was drawn at "this hurts our ability to exploit labor for capital."
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- banning the EPA and USDA from releasing data? meh. - banning talented immigrants with non-commodity skills? OMFGWTFBBQ
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Pre-doomhappenings, I was mostly political about tech politics and inclusion. This was a privileged position.
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Every immigrant I have ever known works 1000x harder than I ever will. They have to.
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All those takes I've had about "it's bullshit for your employees to learn/work on their own time" are super privileged.
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Immigrants don't have that luxury. They can be out of a job at any time, so their skills always have to be current or they get deported.
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If I lost/leave my job, I can take a summer off doing conference talks, like I did last year.
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Or I could take a lower paying job to bridge the gap. H-1B folks have no such luxury.
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We have some very talented individuals that opted to leave first.. Unfortunately..
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