nixCraft 🐧Sep 19, 2025
Damn. A fee of $100,000 has been added to H-1B visa applications for tech including all other companies/sectors, especially those in Silicon Valley, which use the program most frequently. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-mulls-adding-new-100000-fee-h-1b-visas-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-09-19/
Show threadAshwin DixitSep 19, 2025

@nixCraft

Great news for American programmers!
Thanks to this "free market" policy, now they won't have to compete with cheap Indian programmers.

Show threadNathan A. Stine
@purrperl @nixCraft I think it is more likely that companies will hire Indian devs in India rather than bother with the H1-B.
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Show threadbluememonSep 19, 2025
@stinerman @purrperl @nixCraft agree this will only promote more offshore contractors, for tech companies is not that bad, way cheaper resources and you can skip labor laws
Show threadbluememonSep 19, 2025
@stinerman @purrperl @nixCraft and don’t mean this as a good thing, more like the perfect excuse, the company I work for stopped hiring american based engineers two years ago
Show threadNathan A. StineSep 19, 2025
@bluememon @purrperl @nixCraft mine just opened a subsidiary in Pune. We still hire stateside though.
Show threadAshwin DixitSep 19, 2025

@stinerman @nixCraft

Manhole covers in many American towns read like: "Municipality of Bakersfield. MADE IN INDIA" There's iron ore & mining labor in USA, but the labor is unionized, so it's cheaper to fly heavy metal all the way from India.

With software jobs going overseas, Americans will realize that they are just overfed guinea pigs for manufactured luxuries, made by third world labor, living in a sugary petridish.
Unlike Germans, Americans don't make much, except hype, not even software.

Show threadNosirrahSec 🏴‍☠️ guillotine enthusiastSep 19, 2025
@purrperl @stinerman @nixCraft uhhh you're special.
Show threadAshwin DixitSep 19, 2025

@NosirrahSec @stinerman @nixCraft

Thank you! I travel too and have seen some other countries. Have you?

Show threadAMTSep 20, 2025
@purrperl @NosirrahSec @stinerman @nixCraft Huh, surprising! Travel doesn’t teach humility. Who knew!
Show threadAshwin DixitSep 20, 2025

@amt @NosirrahSec @stinerman @nixCraft

Humility is for the sub super.

Show threadRobert HSep 19, 2025

@stinerman @purrperl @nixCraft

H1-B brings in payroll taxes and rental income. Easier to supervise.

#Trump 's new rule disregards existing rule, that guest workers make the prevailing wage. I guess it's too hard for the administration to enforce.