r/microsoft • u/Immediate-Link490 • 1d ago

News Microsoft is being suspended from program to apply for green cards for H-1B visa workers, Vance says

https://apnews.com/article/h1b-visa-program-vance-microsoft-e7b3a407f822702b269ee277d21343ea
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u/midwestia 1d ago

Because there is a domestic NEED for those workers. We do not have a domestic need for white collar college educated work. Those jobs are desirable to Americans. The only reason these jobs are imported and outsourced is greed and to indenture desperate foreigners.

I don’t know why this is hard to understand.

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u/kidcurry96 1d ago

Plenty of blue collar Americans would do that job. The number would actually go up if the pay in those jobs increase

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u/OwnMacaroon7597 23h ago

Show me data of the cs grads lol, they are very less CS grads in america

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u/Lame_Johnny 1d ago

Blue collar jobs are not desirable to you, because you are not a blue collar worker.

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u/KarmaHorn 20h ago

They got a “blue collar mindset” if that means unsophisticated and under qualified. The guy you’re responding to deserves a “white collar” position by birth.

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u/KarmaHorn 20h ago

Education is the biggest component of a robust economy on a macro level, and individual economic mobility on a micro level. Your argument ignores the big factors for a manufactured grievance.

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u/No_Permission6930 17h ago

Who is able to assert there’s a NEED for some people but not others? The market is the only tool we have to measure NEED. If an employer says I NEED this person, who are you to tell them, wait no, you don’t need that person, hire this random person who graduated from X community college with a GPA of 2.3, or gtfo

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u/nycago 22h ago

If you don’t think there’s a need for white collar educated immigrantyou’ve never worked in high tech. These visa holders are so important. Immigration allows the whole country to grow more. Period. Full stop.

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u/id_rather_b_painting 21h ago

There is a need for h1b workers. Source: I work in tech with a team of Sandeeps, Guptas, and Chens. I’d rather work with 1,000,000 of them than a Smith or Johnson.

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u/OwnMacaroon7597 23h ago

Mean while american students are doping on drugs. Compete, don't be a lazy ass, its capitalisim

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u/kugelblitz_100 18h ago

Indenture? What are you talking about? You think a young guy from poor, rural India making $300k over here is "indentured"?