Care to explain? A lot of the reasons posited here involve, for example, Elon firing 70+% of Twitter staff and still having a “functional” site. Elon doesn’t seem to have a particular leftward lean. Covid related stimulus (advocated by those in the left) in fact fueled a lot of the rapid growth in engineering roles in the past four years.
We are also locked in with at least the next four years of very right leaning US government, so if you’re a business basing your hiring on the expected “lean” of the government, how exactly is that the lefts fault? Heck the next two years the republicans have the trifecta plus a majority on the Supreme Court.
The explanation is simple: most people on the left love immigration. Well guess what, people on H1Bs are competing for the same tech jobs everyone else is. There is this fallacy (promoted by the tech billionaires) that the import of tech workers is due to a lack of skill in local workers, and this is simply not true (very much the opposite actually), I saw it first hand at every single company I worked at; the real reason is to be able to excerpt as much control over the life of the worker as possible (they cannot switch jobs as easily as a citizen), that's it.
You are actually supporting this stance with your argument. When Elon fired a bunch of people at Twitter who prevailed? H1Bs of course...
Independently of who is controlling the government something has to be done about it, ideally reforming the H1B program to be for very highly skilled workers (my threshold would be something akin of the knowledge an engineer at ASML/TMSC has) and not random CRUD developers.
even though nothing in america any longer can be apolitical it is unfair to say that people on the left love immigration. more accurate politically would be that people on the right (smartly) realized that it is election-advantageous to make immigration a political issue. hence on the button - several months before every election cycle there goes a caravan of immigrants that all MSM starts following from El Salvador and what not.
america needs immigrants, both ones coming through the soutern border as well as those flying in to JFK with the view of Statue of Liberty. both political parties are money-lobby driven and immigrants, both blue and white collar, are good for business.
When you have a mass of unemployed or underemployed citizens and you tell them (or show them) that the solution you concocted for their problem is to bring in more workers (directly expanding skilled immigration programs and in the case of illegal immigration... turning a blind eye) you made it a political issue, these people are now likely at odds with your discourse.
I can get behind the argument that MSM uses it this on every election cycle, but to deny that the US workers (both blue and white collar) are getting negatively affected by this is putting on a blindfold.
> ... both blue and white collar, are good for business.
That is a truism, of course more people consuming is good for business. The problem is defining "business", its side effects, and who owns it. There is a whole bunch of work on assessing the impact of immigration on local populations (a lot of it propaganda tbf), but reality is that something that benefits Twitter, Amazon, or Microsoft bottom lines might not be aligned with the interests of the workers in the same geographical areas, and this money might not trickle down at all (btw the failure of trickle down is a very common leftist argument...)
Bezos being able to import a bunch of devs might make him and the landlords in Seattle a bit more rich, but benefit none to Joe the recent graduate that needs a job to pay the bills and cannot really afford to retrain on another field with a more favorable supply/demand ratio.
I can get behind the argument that MSM uses it this on every election cycle, but to deny that the US workers (both blue and white collar) are getting negatively affected by this is putting on a blindfold.
not arguing this at all, I believe that H1B program is absolutely horrible for US workers and should be fully scraped or re-written to a law that makes sense. at present it hurts US employees and creates modern-day white collar slavery than only benefits the landlords and no one else
So when Elon fired a bunch of people, targeting (as you claim) “native born” Americans so as to overindex on cheaper H1B visa holders, again this is the lefts fault? IIRC Elon spent easily $25MM of his own money to … get Trump elected. So sounds like the “right” like immigrants too.
Heck his “cochair” of the DOGE, Vivek, got into an X fight with the MAGA contingent about how Indian workers kick the ass of Americans. Again, not exactly a raging liberal.
