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Spooky23yesterday at 10:32 PM1 replyview on HN

Then work for a body shop for 1/4 the billing rate in Arizona, Lansing or whatever. You can get a better gig at Burger King.

There’s two ends to this market, the super smart people and the super dumb jobs. The volume is in people slinging COBOL, J2EE or whatever for awful wages.

The reality is the H1B in the dumb categories are keeping jobs onshore. Nobody is paying 2x for the work… the alternative is shipping everything, including the “better IT” and administrative jobs offshore.


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fijiaaronetoday at 2:36 AM

Or you tariff work done offshore and work done by foreigners onshore. We do that for manufacturing and agriculture, why not tech?