[breadwinner]

No, Chinese will stay home instead of immigrating to the US.

China draws mainly on the talents of the best of its billion+ population. But America has had its pick of the best of the world's 8 billion people. If people stop immigrating to the US, then we will surely fall behind technologically, economically and militarily, and soon we will be making t-shirts for Chinese for $5 an hour.

[nextworddev]

For big tech 100k isn’t too much of a hit to hire the best AI researchers of Chinese descent, so they won’t be impacted.

[breadwinner]

It will be too much if the worker leaves after a month, or gets hit by a truck.

[mrguyorama]

If an H1B worker "leaves after a month" they get deported. Meanwhile, nothing in the world can prevent the Bus Factor so I don't see how that's even relevant.

[nextworddev]

don't respond to him, it's just a LLM posting pro-China stuff on HN