• This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    opening positions for Americans.

    Sure dude. Not like companies will offshore entire teams to Asia to save money. They can hire entire team there for a salary of American employee.

    Then no H1b workers earning and spending money in USA. That should do wonders for the economy.

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      16 hours ago

      Microsoft has ~4 major office buildings in Vancouver.

      Amazon has two(one massive) and two warehouses that I know of.

      Nintendo has an office.

      Salesforce had one of their core dev hubs there.

      EA has two massive compounds, their main one which just added 50% capacity.

      They won’t offshore them to Asia. They’ll move them back across the border.

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      14 hours ago

      Yeah I suppose that’s a good point.

      However, you’d have higher paid Americans spending more money in America.

      I dunno. I’m not an economist, but there’s a housing crisis and I feel like companies importing cheap labour is a piece of the problem.

      Also, I’m Canadian, so I’m kinda using our TFW program as an analogue, I’m not entirely sure how H1Bs work.

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        12 hours ago

        There’s more housing than demand in the US. The cause of the “housing crisis” is institutional landlords who snapped up foreclosures after 2008 for pennies and jacked up rents beyond affordability, as well as keeping units vacant to make it appear that there is constrained supply. There aren’t nearly enough H1B holders to impact nationwide affordability.

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          12 hours ago

          It’s a multi-pronged problem, all of which lead you back to the same root problem of corporate greed.