(03-07-2017 08:54 AM)LeFlâneur Wrote:  

Quote:This week’s Regeneron Science Talent Search—also referred to as the Junior Nobel Prize—will feature advances from America’s brightest young minds........Lo, 83% of last year’s finalists were children of immigrants,.... and three quarters had parents who worked in the U.S. on an H-1B (high-skilled worker) visa.

Linky dinky

That's the theory behind H-1B. In practice, Silicon Valley is bringing in a bunch of routine programmers to get cheaper labor while laying off American programmers.

(03-05-2017 01:40 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  I'm "slobbing" over the program because, unlike some posters in this board, I'm not afraid of the free market, and I want what's best for both myself and my country - even if it means that I have to work hard to stay ahead of foreign competitive pressures.

NZ, I will tell you right now.. this isn't a free-market issue.

This is about a system that is ROTTEN to its core and has been abused in the "high technologies fields" so badly that on job postings, lately, they've actually been putting "Will not accept H1-b applicants for this position".

We had someone call about trying to get some H1-B visas put on our support desk staff... they pretty much got the middle finger from us. (granted, our field of business makes it less likely to use an H1-B individual)

Quote: The Russians tried that, and the North Koreans have that.

No, the Russians and North Koreans did not try the method you're hinting... they went with the "You go to school for this field, because we say so... you come out for this job"...

But the H1-B IS NOT a free market model.. it's a "Corporatism" model. Big difference.