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   Dave Rahardja (drahardja@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 09:00:46 JST Dave Rahardja

   One reason why US capitalists love H1-Bs is that they are the closest thing they get to indentured servitude of tech labor. H1-B visas are tied to a company, and a person with the visa must leave the country when their current employment is terminated.

   H1-B visa holders are *effectively* exempt from labor protections: they can’t unionize, protest low wages, or quit due to working conditions, because they risk deportation.

   The visa has a duration limit of six years, after which the employer can discard the worker with a shrug and no penalty, and hire new ones to start the process over again.

   Yes, H1-B visas give you time to get a green card (I went through that process), but the employer has to help with that, and most aren’t that interested. Besides, green cards have hard quota limits, and if you come from e.g. India, your chances of getting a green card allocation is slim to none. https://sfba.social/@skykiss/113732466690741321

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     Konnor Rogers (konnorrogers@ruby.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 14:46:18 JST Konnor Rogers

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     @drahardja When I was in the Army, I met someone from India with a master's degree in computer science, he got both his bachelors and masters here in the US.

     He said that had he not joined the Army, his wait list time to get a green card would be somewhere around 10+ years.

     It was then that I learned how dogshit immigration is in this country.

     And everyone who says "I support *legal* immigration"

     has no idea how garbage the US immigration system is.

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     kuteboiCoder (kuteboicoder@subs4social.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 14:48:04 JST kuteboiCoder

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     • Konnor Rogers

     @konnorrogers@ruby.social @drahardja@sfba.social
     
     I love the fact that sfba.social is lit up like a #secular #holiday #tree over #Elon and his #bullshit
     
     They know that of which they speak

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     • Konnor Rogers

     @konnorrogers@ruby.social @drahardja@sfba.social
     
     The radlibs are on the right side of the #Elon flamewar, just like they were with l'aggiudicazione.
     
     The good guys are winning 🥂