if H1Bs are supposed to be a means of obtaining labor not available domestically it's curious they're cheaper than domestic labor an easy way to ensure that they aren't directly substituting for domestic labor would be to add a $100k surcharge per head
obviously the lower cost is the point ofc and this is a bit of a silly proposal probably the real policy question is what are the tradeoffs between the effects of H1Bs and the effects of offshoring that would probably occur in some greater measure with reduced H1B availability
@eigenrobot Have companies bid on H1-B visas and jack the price sky high.
@eigenrobot TELL THEM TO REPEAL THE JONES ACT if that works I will contact you with additional instructions
@eigenrobot there is kind of a price inherent to the h1b in that sponsoring a visa is annoying risky and there’s a reasonable transaction cost. anytime I’ve been in a position to hire you prefer a permanent resident or citizen, unless a big company abstracts all that away for you
@eigenrobot A reasonable proposal is that if a company has had any layoffs in the past year, they can't be permitted to apply for any H1B roles at all for the next 3. and for every offshoring/H1B job, loss of equivalent tax credit or impose no-exception tax penalty
@eigenrobot why would we assume labour not available domestically always be more expensive labour? it's always per some price after all, because giving fruit pickers or react coders a million is not a sustainable equilibrium.
@eigenrobot I have experience in a perhaps unusual h1b hiring domain: Montessori teachers. It costs probably closer to $10k in dollars. There is also significant operational overhead you’re assuming in the (very real) risk that the process doesn’t work out.
@eigenrobot Exactly Oh, and don't constantly defund the school system and make the school system completely inept so that every person that's a product of the school system has zero skills and is completely unemployable
@eigenrobot So a H1B “10” should cost $100k more than a domestic “3”? We are pretending everyone is the same for this 1 thing when we never do it for anyone else.
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@eigenrobot At my company they were more expensive than other employees because we paid them the same and also had to spend thousands on legal fees
@eigenrobot eigen can you tweet about passing the PRIME act pls
@eigenrobot Just sort applicants by salary. There is already lottery and cap anyway.
@eigenrobot All this does is force American companies to hire overseas.
