[ycombinator_acc]

I'm not convinced it existed before - not to the extent where it actually harmed people. But you know what will harm people for certain and a lot? "Ending H-1B ASAP". So why end it (let alone make it worse by making H-1B workers significantly more exploitable) instead of increasing the unemployment grace period, making travel less of a gamble, giving the worker more flexibility with work schedule and location?

[genxy]

I agree with all those things, AND preventing Amazon from firing 15-30k people and then turning around and hiring H1Bs. We are not talking about the same thing, enough that there isn't a disagreement.