Editing H-1B Visa (section)

== Impacts on Workers and Society ==

Weinstein describes H-1B as an "evil system" that brings great people to displace other great people, weakening American workers' bargaining positions and forcing them to "mitigate their wage demands." He emphasizes that the problem is not immigrants themselves but the visas and abusive labor market practices by Americans. The U.S. STEM labor market has been "totally & deliberately rigged" since 1986 in favor of employers, the People's Republic of China (PRC), and Boomers, against scientists, science, and the nation. This betrays U.S. STEM professionals, treating them as "STEM serfs" or inducing the complex to "murder careers of our own people." Senior scientists and employers, via NSF/NAS, destroyed career paths for younger colleagues.

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|content=Word to the wise: It is designed to tear good people apart. 

Don't fall for it: 

https://users.nber.org/~sewp/references/archive/weinsteinhowandwhygovernment.pdf
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|content=Those debating [[H-1B Visa|H-1B]] and skilled immigration should talk to its intellectual father. A quiet man of which you likely have never heard.

There is one hell of a conspiracy story to tell around where this came from. Would consider doing a podcast to stop my friends from fighting.
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|content=This is one of the most important people in modern US history. [[Myles Boylan|@myles_boylan]], you are all but unknown, but it would be an honor to have you as my guest on The Portal.

It is time.
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|content=Spoiler Alert: Skilled Immigration is a political football.

It is an evil system designed by a conspiracy from our science complex that brings us great people to displace our own great people, which is supported by great people and fought by great people.

All the major voices I see on this so far are in some super-position of 'Wrong' and 'Not Wrong'.

Note to my friends with the incoming administration: It will tear you apart if you don't know where it came from and what it is designed to do.
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Broader societal harms include eroding U.S. advantages in "freedom & irreverence based education," reliance on foreign talent trained in obedience (e.g., from Asia), and national security risks from outsourcing innovation. Weinstein notes short-term damage from cancelling H-1B but argues it's overdue, as the program itself is the "fraud" and "abuse."