Debate over H-1B visas shines spotlight on US tech worker shortages. A computer science professor explains: https://theconversation.com/debate-over-h-1b-visas-shines-spotlight-on-us-tech-worker-shortages-248711 #stem #tech
Debate over H-1B visas shines spotlight on US tech worker shortagesThe Conversation
@log@mastodon.sdf.org@TheConversationUS Skewed towards the perspective of the 20000 academic H-1B visas over the 65000 others, and still manages to admit that those *non-immigrant* visa-holders are likely underpaid by as much as $100000 per year.
There are no worker shortages. There are only wage shortfalls. American workers could do the jobs more cheaply, if they were not locked into a "work or die" system that hollows out individual finances, at every stage of life, via relentless exploitation.