[papito]

I agree about healthcare. Employees in the United States over-perform because we can't risk losing health insurance and ending up in financial ruin.

H1-B, now, as much as I am sympathetic to that (an immigrant coming from extreme poverty myself), I don't understand why HN treats losing a work visa as a death sentence.

The tragedy here is what exactly? That you get to go home to your family and a country with a safety net and free healthcare, as bad as it might be? Before you apply for a new job? Is that really worse than some narcissistic rich douche shaving the years off your life by working you into the ground like this?

[sokoloff]

The issue is that they, for their own mix of reasons, decided they most preferred to work in the US on an H1B, and are now losing that.