• Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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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.