{"id":62453,"date":"2017-03-17T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62453"},"modified":"2017-03-16T23:44:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T04:44:29","slug":"pivot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62453","title":{"rendered":"Pivot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The H-1B visa program was started because Americas were such a bunch of dummies, we couldn\u2019t supply the tech industry with enough qualified people not matter how much we offered to pay them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">But according to this article, it\u2019s now being used to bring in foreigners who can be paid less than qualified Americans.\u00a0 The problem now isn\u2019t that there aren\u2019t enough qualified Americans, it\u2019s that they cost too much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The program was never supposed to be about cost, only supply.\u00a0 If we have an adequate supply, <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/view-from-the-valley\/at-work\/tech-careers\/commentary-the-h1b-problem-as-ieeeusa-sees-it\"><span class=\"s2\">we don\u2019t need the program<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Oh, it&#8217;s about cost. \u00a0How else can our high tech industry compete on commodity products like code?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The H-1B visa program was started because Americas were such a bunch of dummies, we couldn\u2019t supply the tech industry with enough qualified people not matter how much we offered to pay them. \u00a0But according to this article, it\u2019s now being used to bring in foreigners who can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62454,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62453\/revisions\/62454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}