[julie1]

I guess we all support competition. Loyal and fair.

H1B is to get workers without loans from places where diploma have been paid often by public taxes.

Without loans you are more competitive than a worker having to reimburse them.

H1BrainDrain also have a power of captation of publicly founded research that can be patented. (That's why young PhD are so interesting)

It also undermines the competitivity of countries which miss their engineer and have to pay twice the knowledge they founded.

It also ostensibly discourage the workers from unionizing since they have no way of controlling a pool of workers that can leverage the offer.

On the macroscopic level H1B is possible because there is a distortion of competition on the job market.

H1B is heavily biasing the capacity of negotiation on the work market in favour of the companies which uses them.

A market in which you can not win and must play is not a fair game.

[ComodoHacker]

> H1BrainDrain also have a power of captation of publicly founded research that can be patented. (That's why young PhD are so interesting)

I didn't get this point. Could you elaborate?

[julie1]

Formation costs money. Losing a gifted student can set back the agenda of a university having almost strong enough results to publish.

When you have the person actually having the bleeding edge knowledge, you can fund him or her to end the work and either publish it (prior act) or develop a usable result that can be patented.

But most of the effort, especially in countries with public education, has been supported by the taxes of the locals.

It is not USA the problem here. Europe and other place with public education are a bunch of bullied that are masochistic and love to be stolen.

When a company claims that it will only steal from foreign entities for your national interest, and never you because you are a special snowflake, it tend to lie.

A pathological thief will steal everyone as long as he is not stopped.