I hate it when anyone on any side politically talks about immigration. The libertarians and billionaire class appear to be pro-H1B because we are workers who feed their money machines and can’t easily quit or unionize. The liberals think we are privileged immigrants who take their tech jobs and we don’t need help in this utterly broken system.
The leftists who think we are cheap labor who take American jobs, you all suck too.
@skinnylatte there's a really nasty trap where people see "real americans" being treated poorly e.g. paying absurd tuition costs, and then rather than thinking about that, they just accept it, and switch to "well of course we can't afford to give cheap tuition to foreigners, we can't even afford to give cheap tuition to Americans". But obviously it's a real failure of imagination to think those problems are innate or unsolvable and it's a deliberate ploy to recenter everything around immigration
@dotstdy yeah, I keep seeing this here. There’s a whole ‘we don’t want privileged foreigners coming here, they can’t get more things than us’. I understand where it comes from, but whew
@skinnylatte it's one of the many parallels between the US and Australia, alas...