alt Hacker NewsSomeone else would have taken that job maybe for a higher salary.
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More likely there would have been one less job.
There isn't a "lump of labour" that gets distributed in the economy.
Humans tend not to be fungible.
It is questionable if US has the education system or people capital to support all the science based sectors it has IMO.
Immigrants doing a very large portion of tech work can't be just because they get paid less
At a certain point, there aren't enough Americans for these jobs. So the choice is to let other nations absorb these skilled laborers, or simply hire the best people.
It's funny how we forget about meritocracy as soon as the median American is threatened.
You do realize every major tech company has offices in EU and in India. You make it hard here they will hire more there
Or it would have moved overseas forever.
I can already on the ground see the effect of the Trump policies. So many tech jobs that would have been in the US are being lost. And companies are learning how to be effective with overseas teams.
But then they gave up a tax paying job and thus the net effect is zero.
Looking holistically the person leaving the US (or lets say 100 people to make it easier to see the point) means 1 to 30 less startups and so maybe an entire company or more not being started. That is less revenue for US.
What most people from the "they steal our jobs" mentality (not saying that is you, but this a seperate point) don't get is productive people create jobs by being a customer of many businesses.