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bellowsgulch 15 minutes ago [-]
I vote for Democrats. Sad they didn't step up for American tech workers though, and the guy shitting himself did.
FatherOfCurses 1 hours ago [-]
In other words, companies who rely on H1B visas are not donating enough to Trump 2028 or the Republican party.
hn_submit 1 hours ago [-]
Wasn't this struck down because by law the Federal Government can only charge the cost of producing a visa? The amount cannot be arbitrary in any way.
Or has the Trump Administration found a workaround for this?
wtfHN26 3 hours ago [-]
Most likely these companies will set up GCCs offshore. Moving the jobs abroad.
Whatever tax and living + lifestyle expenses that USA economy was making from H1B's will be gone.
Good for the rest of the world.
rayiner 3 hours ago [-]
Nothing stops those companies from moving offshore anyway. If being in the U.S. didn’t offer advantages they wouldn’t be here to begin with. At some point americans are going to have to start having faith that their own country and people are a competitive edge against other countries.
add-sub-mul-div 17 minutes ago [-]
There's certainly fewer barriers to offshoring now that employees have insisted there's no benefit to being onsite.
Daishiman 29 minutes ago [-]
> If being in the U.S. didn’t offer advantages they wouldn’t be here to begin with.
For companies hiring H1Bs it's about being closer to clients and colleagues and just being managerially far easier than opening an offshore office, but the benefit isn't infinite and once companies have the chops for opening new offices they'll turn down the H1B hiring.
The issue for the US is that, are you're saying, "having faith in your own country" only works if you have the process for developing unnaturally skillfull talent, which is just not going to happen once the smart people stop moving to the US as countries have uniformly distributed talent potential.
lingua_franca 2 hours ago [-]
The government can penalize companies for doing so.
potatoking 2 hours ago [-]
Not really.. Corporations have enough holdings abroad to survive and kill a party or two.
Anything that can't be done by the company will be outsourced to a consultancy. This already happens; a lot of work in Google products is done by external agencies.
3 hours ago [-]
cyanydeez 3 hours ago [-]
oh that's an optimistic view; more likely they slip some more bills into omni-trumps hands and this is silently dropped.
Assume grift first when any American regulation is proposed.
throwa356262 1 hours ago [-]
All Canada needs to do to become the center of innovation now is to... become 10°C warmer.
whoamii 10 minutes ago [-]
This is why their forests are currently burning
_aavaa_ 1 hours ago [-]
Warmer would help, but the latitude difference still gets you on sun height and hours of daylight in the winter months.
throwa356262 43 minutes ago [-]
I dont know, warm weather but not too much direct sunlight could actually be a good thing.
jerlam 36 minutes ago [-]
They're getting a nice assist from global warming.
Or has the Trump Administration found a workaround for this?
Whatever tax and living + lifestyle expenses that USA economy was making from H1B's will be gone.
Good for the rest of the world.
For companies hiring H1Bs it's about being closer to clients and colleagues and just being managerially far easier than opening an offshore office, but the benefit isn't infinite and once companies have the chops for opening new offices they'll turn down the H1B hiring.
The issue for the US is that, are you're saying, "having faith in your own country" only works if you have the process for developing unnaturally skillfull talent, which is just not going to happen once the smart people stop moving to the US as countries have uniformly distributed talent potential.
Ohio senator introduces 25% tax on companies that outsource jobs overseas - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45146528 - September 2025
Assume grift first when any American regulation is proposed.