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by neokrish 3138 days ago
As an Indian who had a very high paying job but lost out to the lottery and had to return to India, I welcome this bill. As someone else in this thread mentioned, this bill only gets half the way, they should remove the lottery and pick from the pool sorted by salary. The current combination of limited retraining of unemployed American labor pool and exploited workers by Indian consulting firms is exacerbating the populism and rightly so. I’m not against my fellow countrymen, I’m against the companies and the management that have failed to balance their own activities and abused the system. Indian government doesn’t want this to happen of course, as they’ll have a pool of unemployed population within the country. This would’ve been fine if this pool would’ve been uneducated, but an educated pool that can’t find jobs in the market will focus its sights on the government and demand changes. All in all, much needed change that unfortunately had to be delivered as a shock to the system and at the hands of a mostly incompetent president.