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Re: [News] Microsoft on the Hunt for Cheaper Labour

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> H-1B, the outsourcing visa
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | ZDNet is running a blog by John Carroll where he discusses how H-1B
> | visas in the US are being used by Indian outsourcing firms to displace
> | US workers. "Rather than preventing the outsourcing of jobs, the H-1B
> | program acts in just the opposite way, by accelerating the outsourcing
> | of high-wage, high-skill jobs to low-cost countries."
> | 
> | A slightly different take on the situation than Guy Fawkes
> | previous Technocrat story on the subject.

They're screwing themselves.

Eventually those people will demand higher salaries than what they are
paying for domestic engineers -- and US engineers will be moving to China
and India.

The real losers are U.S. management (Bill Gates is a manager, BTW, nothing
more, nothing less).


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