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by palmotea 251 days ago
> All the people gloating about more domestic jobs forgot that corporations are now outsourcing more than ever.

Further action needs to be taken against that. Personally I think offshoring is a far worse problem for workers than H1-Bs, but a harder one to solve.

H1-Bs should be limited to people significantly better than average, and some innovative regulation needs to be concocted to discourage and punish offshoring.
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chairmansteve 250 days ago
"Personally I think offshoring is a far worse problem for workers than H1-Bs".

Yes, it's complicated. Arguably, when foreigners buy American made software eg, Microsoft products, they are offshoring software development to America.

So... if you start limiting software "imports" aka offshoring, other countries will do the same. So Microsoft will sell a lot less.

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palmotea 250 days ago
> So... if you start limiting software "imports" aka offshoring, other countries will do the same. So Microsoft will sell a lot less.

1. You don't really have to target software "imports," especially since software is only part of the offshoring problem. It makes more sense to go directly after certain kinds of employment and labor contracting agreements.

2. Also, you really only have to target India and you solve most of the problem.

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