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more on Letter to Nancy Pelosi on Skill Bill
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:16:49 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Vadim Antonov <avg () kotovnik com> Date: November 21, 2006 2:14:44 PM EST To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: ip () v2 listbox com Subject: Re: [IP] more on Letter to Nancy Pelosi on Skill Bill
The SKILL Act of 2006 has been designed to devastate the careers of professionals all across America. ......
It seems that all hand-waving about the H1B visas misses the very simple fact - if there's a supply of cheaper labor, this labor is going to be used by businesses. And in the high-tech field there are little georgaphical constraints. So. Limit high-tech immigration - the companies will outsource. Ban outsourcing, the production (and taxable revenues) will move offshore. The only effective "solution" will be total closing of the borders - including shutdown of the Internet. If American programmers had any clue about basics of economics they'd welcome as many H1Bs in as possible - because it raises the living expenses of their human competitors, and eventually makes them to demand the same salaries for the same skills. Keep these people where their smallish salaries have much higher purchasing power, and then you end up pricing yourselves out of the market.There's only one way to stay ahead - to be more competivite. Meaning more
skilled, more productive, more focused on serving customers. For anyonefamiliar with practice of outsourcing there's little doubt that there's no real competition to US high-tech workforce where quality and inventiveness
counts. The only jobs displaced and outsourced are low-grade, tedious jobs, a high-tech equivalent of tilling rice fields, not requiring any skills above middle school math.These jobs paid well when in-depth computer literacy was low. Nowadays we have kids who have grown up with computers, and to them these jobs are no
more special or skilled than driving trucks. --vadim ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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