Something I agree with for once...

[Bil522]

The issue with programs like H1B is the abuse. The idea was ALWAYS that those slots were supposed to be for roles that couldn't be filled by a legal US resident. But somewhere along the line the US government stopped enforcing that requirement.

The issue is two fold... the government is in cahoots with rich tech companies. I remember during the campaign cycle, Vivek Ramaswamy referred to Americans as "too stupid and too costly to train." There's always a class of people who want to work toward factory style labor if it means maximizing profit and harming the working class.

Leadership has also gone very international at places like Microsoft... they're running little Microsoft sweat shops and shipping in people to work like they do at call centers in India.

Hell, most major companies outsource all of their technical support, expense teams, customer support straight to call centers in India.

You're telling me people in rural states aren't able to answer phones and solve problems? So why don't they keep things local?

An Indian at a call center will work 18 hour days for dirt and answer calls for multiple, different companies. And even if the service is poor, which 99% of the time it is due to cultural and language barriers, it's still cheap and companies just don't care.

Well, to be fair, American students, for the most part, are too stupid and too costly to train. I would say roughly 50% of today's high school students can't tell time on an analog clock. They are taught very little about current events or geography. Heck, lots of school districts in WA don't have mandatory Financial Literacy classes. I know these facts because I am in their classes and am consistently stunned by what they don't know.

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

Bil, that's scary.

[DanielVogelbach]

Well, to be fair, American students, for the most part, are too stupid and too costly to train. I would say roughly 50% of today's high school students can't tell time on an analog clock. They are taught very little about current events or geography. Heck, lots of school districts in WA don't have mandatory Financial Literacy classes. I know these facts because I am in their classes and am consistently stunned by what they don't know.

Not being able to tell time on an analog clock has zero correlation with stupidity or cost of training and 100% correlation with digital clocks. That's like blaming an American for not being able to speak Chinese. That being said, I think learning how to read an analog clock, while maybe not crucial to life, is still probably a better thing to learn than 99% of what's taught at K-12 indoctrination camps these days.

Geography and current events have about zero correlation with any job tasks unless you're running worldwide logistics or something. I don't care about kids learning "social studies" and "his story". What I would like to see is kids learning practical skills. Kids are all trying to make content for tik tok and youtube, so society suffers and you have to pay a ton of money for real work that really matters like food or a new roof. All learning should take place privately. Government schools suck, just like every other service provided by government.

Shit, sports is way overemphasized. how many kids spend all day working on their jump shot when they could be learning skills that actually help them make money and therefore help society... making money means contributing to society under normal free market conditions.... Then on the spectator side how much time is wasted following sports stats, fantasy foobtall, etc.... I'm not saying you need to be productive and learning skills 24x7... there's plenty of time for leisure and fun... but sports is another major distraction for kids.... video games... it's all opportunity cost. They aren't inherently stupid or too costly to train. They are just like everyone else. Programmable.

Financial literacy has never been taught. That's by design. People aren't supposed to understand how their slavemasters can print money out of thin air, pass legal tender laws, and force the slaves to pay taxes with it.