• snekkysnek@programming.dev
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    2 hours ago

    But that doesn’t make sense. The gap between a US based HB1 and someone in China or India was already well north of 100k - so why were there jobs in the US at all to begin with?

    • yes_this_time@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Decisions and jobs aren’t monolith.

      In some cases employers are going to hire US based no matter what. In other cases there would be a choice and this policy may tip the scale in some of those cases.

      In aggregate, it seems really likely to me that this will result in some outflow of jobs from the US to international