[CostanzaKing]

You think all the workers brought to the US on programs like H1-B are "world class"? They are generally good people and good employees, but for the most part they are operating at a level many US workers are capable of working at, with skills US workers possess. Companies bring them over because they know they can get away with paying them less.

Global competition among labor for work is one of the driving forces behind the erosion of the middle class.

[logicchains]

>Global competition among labor for work is one of the driving forces behind the erosion of the middle class.

Erosion of the _American_ middle class, creation of the middle class in developing countries. I fail to see why an American deserves better compensation for their work than e.g. a Chinese doing similar work, just because of the luck of where they were born.

[NTDF9]

> You think all the workers brought to the US on programs like H1-B are "world class"?

Have you ever considered questions such as:

- The program itself might be flawed? US needs to improve its processes (ties to the original post)

- Why are Americans letting companies do that? Have you asked for something different from your government or are you just blasting a system from the last century?

- Why are CEOs allowed to gain the riches of global profits while being taxed lesser than middle class?

Globalization wasn't just "job stealing". It brought ungodly profits into corporate America. So many American companies have revenues more than GDP of entire nations. That goes into your 401k. So you have a share of work done in other countries.

Ever asked why middle class Americans are not getting a larger share of it from American rich people? Why isn't the money trickling down as promised?

At the end, you vote for your representatives. Your representatives seem to make the rich richer and create inhuman systems like H-1B instead of merit based systems. If you just elect someone who shuts the whole system down without an adequate replacement, forget about talented people, like OP, coming into the US.