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Debate over H-1B visas shines spotlight on US tech worker shortages. A computer science professor explains: theconversation.com/debate-ove… #stem #tech

Debate over H-1B visas shines spotlight on US tech worker shortages

A reliance on foreign students for academic research has allowed the US to ignore flaws in its domestic tech worker pipeline, a scholar argues.
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Skewed towards the perspective of the 20000 academic H-1B visas over the 65000 others, and still manages to admit that those *non-immigrant* visa-holders are likely underpaid by as much as $100000 per year.

There are no worker shortages. There are only wage shortfalls. American workers could do the jobs more cheaply, if they were not locked into a "work or die" system that hollows out individual finances, at every stage of life, via relentless exploitation.

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There is not a tech worker shortage. There's a tech business overload. The oligarchy has too much cash to invest in unsustainable bullshit tech-for-its-own-sake products nobody legitimately wants or needs.
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