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  • Bernie Sanders says Elon Musk is wrong about H-1B visas: 'Low-wage indentured servants'

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  • Like the other commenter suggested, check levels.fyi. If you’re in a major tech hub like Silicon Valley, $300k is average, and many people are pushing $500k. Some who are in highly specialized roles, or who hit the jackpot on the timing of their equity grants can get over $1m.

    The app Blind has a lot of people sharing info on this.

  • Bernie Sanders says Elon Musk is wrong about H-1B visas: 'Low-wage indentured servants'

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  • Imagine what it would be like without the flood of labor from abroad. Those jobs could pay $1 million/year and be filled by Americans.

    Now imagine if they uncap H1-Bs, the market will totally flood and wages will easily drop to five-digits.

  • Bernie Sanders says Elon Musk is wrong about H-1B visas: 'Low-wage indentured servants'

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  • Most H1-Bs are filling jobs that pay $200k+. Most Americans don’t know but tech jobs pay between $200k-$1m, and almost all of those jobs are taken by folks on H1-B visas. Rather than sourcing and training Americans for the best paying jobs in the country, the tech industry has lobbied Congress to flood the market with labor from India and China. We can only imagine these wages would be higher without the influx of these workers. But, the wages are still high, and they would love to flood the market with even more cheap labor if they could uncap H1-Bs to further drive down wages. There are people willing to work for $60k/year just for the promise of an American visa.

    Additionally, H1-B workers are easier to control. They all fear layoffs or firings because losing your job means losing your visa, if you can’t find another job within 2 months. So, there is incentive to neglect work-life balance and change the culture of a company into “996,” which means working from 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week.

    And, there is widespread fraud and discrimination against American workers too. When entire departments come to be filled with people from a certain country, they tend to keep hiring people from that country. One reason for this is tech companies tend to hire from contracting agencies like WiPro, InfoSys, TCS, Cognizant, and HCL (WITCH), all of which originated in India and source from India, so they don’t focus on diversity at all (there have been lawsuits). Many of those contractors are doing jobs that should actually be filled by full time employees, but companies flagrantly ignore labor laws. When they do need to hire full time employees, they often convert these contractors. Also, many of these workers don’t have the actual qualifications for the job, so they falsify their resumes. I’ve interviewed candidates claiming 15 years of experience with a language, that cannot write a single line of code in that language when prompted. Those that can write code, don’t always follow best practices and can churn out cheap, hacky solutions that ultimately just need to be redone.

    This is all an open secret in the tech industry. It isn’t more widely talked about because there are few Americans to actual witness what is going on. And, those criticizing the system risk being painted as xenophobic. It is good to see Bernie coming out against these practices because people on the right and left should be critical of it.

  • Bernie Sanders says Elon Musk is wrong about H-1B visas: 'Low-wage indentured servants'

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  • Linux user share on Steam ended 2024 on a high note

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  • I’m one. As a Mac user, I haven’t used windows in years, and avoid it like the plague. But, the limited games support meant I had to rely on consoles to get my gaming fix. With Steam’s strong support for Linux, I decided to build a gaming PC for Linux only. It’s been great. I just wish more publishers would support it — the ones adding kernel-level anti-cheat are ruining things, but I’m hoping if enough people switch to Linux, they won’t be able to ignore us.

  • Laura Loomer goes off on Elon Musk advising Trump — calls out his ‘off the books’ meetings with Iranian and Chinese officials

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  • If some man is sucking Trump’s dick and gets to be in his orbit as an “advisor” and considered for political appointments, than yes that would be a sexual favor.

  • Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour

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  • Also, they handle multiple orders. So, by the time you get your food it’s lukewarm at best, but likely cold and soggy.

    Last time I checked out of curiosity, this Mexican place near me sells burritos for $12. After fees and tips, it would’ve been $28 on Uber Eats. It’s just not worth it to me to pay extra, when I can easily drive the 10 minutes myself.

  • PlayStations for guns are offered up in New Orleans

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  • But video games cause violence

  • Laura Loomer goes off on Elon Musk advising Trump — calls out his ‘off the books’ meetings with Iranian and Chinese officials

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  • Are you really coming out in favor of sexual favors as a form of bribery?

  • Laura Loomer goes off on Elon Musk advising Trump — calls out his ‘off the books’ meetings with Iranian and Chinese officials

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  • Did you read the news though? She very, very likely sucked Trump’s dick.

  • US Treasury says Chinese hackers stole documents in 'major incident'

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  • Maybe it’s time for the US govt to start paying high enough wages to recruit tech talent.

  • Laura Loomer goes off on Elon Musk advising Trump — calls out his ‘off the books’ meetings with Iranian and Chinese officials

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  • Laura Loomer is kind of mad because she sucked the wrong dick for influence. Should’ve been sucking Elon’s instead.

  • Apple reportedly planning flat but completely edgeless iPhone display

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  • I wish they’d focus on removing that silly “dynamic” island. I’d actually rather have a bezel at the top.

  • TIL the New York Post was purchased by Rupert Murdoch in 1976 and then lost money every year until September 2022 when it became profitable, posting a profit for the quarter and year to date.

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  • Basically, the point is, Rupert Murdoch is no business man. He is pushing an agenda.

  • Churches close their doors as fewer Americans attend

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  • Good riddance. God is dead and we have killed him.

  • Apple pulls remaining Lightning-based devices from European stores

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  • I agree USB-C is small enough, but micro and mini usb were not reversible. I don’t think Apple was intentionally making cables that fell apart easily. I agree that they did, but I don’t think it had some profit motive behind it. Apple makes dumb design decisions some times because their designers like certain looks or materials. I just honestly think the designers liked the material of the cable and its feel. It was admittedly nice, but it just falls apart within a year of everyday use. Now they’ve changed to a cloth material.

  • TIL that in 1998, Republican Nominee for Tennessee State Senator, Byron Looper, Assassinated his opponent, incumbent and Democratic Nominee for Tennessee State Senator, Tommy Burks.

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  • Better to hire “a one hit wonder”

  • Apple pulls remaining Lightning-based devices from European stores

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  • Seems like a bit of an overreaction. The complaint you’re making is about the cable not the connector. The cable can still fray near the tip with a USB-C given enough wear and tear.

    The lightning connector was great for its time, moving Apple devices off the giant serial connectors present on the iPod and early iPhone. In comparison, the lightning connector was small, reversible, and durable. It’s still even smaller than USB-C today.

  • Costco shuts down shareholders demand to ditch DEI hiring practices

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  • What is the value of shareholders for massive corporations?

    Corporations don’t start off massive. They start off small and lacking “capital” or money with which to fund the creation and support of their products before they become profitable and self-sustaining. So, how do they motivate people to lend them money? They sell shares, aka ownership, of the company. If the company succeeds, the shares become more valuable and the shareholder that bought them can sell them for more than they initially paid. Mostly, massive corporations don’t need to raise money in this way of selling shares, so most shares are traded publicly through third parties.

    Is it that they fund retirements of future generations?

    Kind of. Retirement is expensive, and saving alone isn’t really enough to pay for it. On the whole, stocks tend to go up, so people mostly invest their savings into the stock market for years before they retire so that their money will grow enough to retire. Individually, people are usually trying to find their own retirements, not future generations. However, there do exist big retirement funds for entire companies called pensions that are interested in growing a pool of money for its current employees and future ones. Vanguard, and similar companies, offer tools to make investing for retirement easier, like accounts that you don’t have to pay taxes on until you retire, or single shares that are actually thousands of different company’s shares grouped into one.

    To your last point, there could be better ways, but we don’t currently use them. There are problems with the system for sure.