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@ViaUSWorkers Neither party has the appetite to resist their corporate donors. Doubt anything is going change in the near future.

Kudos to Indians for reaching C-suite dominance. As with any paradigm shift, they must recognize that the end of an era is fast approaching and plan their exit strategy. H-1B and the whole alphabet soup of visas need an American First comprehensive overhaul. Our generosity has reached an end! Indian-origin executives now lead some of America’s most prominent tech companies—Microsoft (Satya Nadella), Alphabet/Google (Sundar Pichai), Adobe (Shantanu Narayen), IBM (Arvind Krishna), and dozens more. Relative to population share, this representation in high-tech leadership is extraordinary. Proponents celebrate it as a merit-based achievement. Skeptics see the natural endpoint of a 36-year network effect: once key technical roles and management pipelines are filled through visa sponsorship, internal hiring preferences reinforce the cycle. Supporters of the program point to innovation, economic growth, and the genuine talent of many Indian STEM graduates. They argue the U.S. simply does not produce enough domestic workers in certain fields. Critics counter with data showing stagnant wages in IT occupations for Americans with similar qualifications, declining enrollment signals from U.S. students who see the field as unstable, and repeated congressional testimony about abuse. After 36 years—since the H-1B program’s inception in 1990 and the documented bodyshopping surge in the mid-1990s—the Trojan horse is no longer concealed inside the gates. The scale of the shift, the consistency of the visa dominance, and the resulting leadership transformation speak for themselves. Whether policymakers treat this as a success story or a cautionary tale about unintended (or intended) consequences will determine the next chapter of American tech employment. For many U.S. workers who watched their industry change around them, the verdict has been clear for decades: this was never just about filling temporary gaps.

@nickpi0 @ThePrimeagen Is this big government or big consulting firms looting the government blind?

@ThePrimeagen this is why i've gone from being a borderline communist to a libertarian over the past few years. Big government that handles everything would be great in theory, but as we can see they literally never do anything right.

this is more money than OpenAI just raised to build space age tech wtf is happening in california

@biolenin1sm @questionableway I think the concern is about being able to meet the demand. It would require far larger swaths of land as dedicated pastures and this would probably come from existing forested land. Not to mention the costs involved with running these pastures

@questionableway and the funniest part about this if that their view of somehow feeding the entire earth with grass-fed pasture-raised “ethical” meat would literally be worse!

by the way these numbers are no exaggerations. at any given moment there are ~35 billion chickens on earth. we cycle through that entire population every 5 months or so (compared to a lifespan of 5-10 years). a majority will never touch another living being or even see daylight

@imis4n @snoopy_dot_jpg Tf are you talking about?. I know people who haven't left the Amazon SLU HQ for days

@snoopy_dot_jpg lol the "genuine unemployment" line seattle's always been like this though. they just build stuff at work and log off. no one's trying to be the main character of linkedin

weekend in seattle so far: - i have not seen a single laptop running claude code - no one has mentioned ai, except to disparage it. they don't know gpt5.5 just dropped - many young people are unemployed, but in a genuine way and not the gross "starting something big" way everyone is relaxed. the performative anxieties of the bay area do not exist here. no one has told me about their startup. much to consider

@bumbadum14 Is enjoying simple things and not overindulging in the consumerist lifestyle so you can free yourself from the corporate treadmill to do whatever you like soul crushing?. I think the alternative is what's actually soul crushing

FIRE is probably the most soul crushing lifestyle I have ever heard of and it's a terrible indictment on our society. Some of the most competent and intelligent people are structuring themselves to live as minimally as possible so they can check out of society before they're 40. Many of these people are unbelievably hard workers and incredibly intelligent. But they are so disillusioned so all of their potential goes to waste because there's no point to work for more.

@hot_cocoa_girl It's kinda crazy because it's not true and you are probably in a padded room for thinking that

It’s actually kinda crazy that a top tier wagie is basically the same level of wealth as a small business owner

@VicVijayakumar I mean unless they have their own cows roaming in the backyard you wouldn't be able to tell

@Giglamesh7 nah they're the kind of places where I've watched them make them

I've had a burger craving all year and been on the hunt trying to find the best burger in town. I've eaten maybe 20 burgers so far (it's 2026 week 15 btw) and they've all been just acceptable. B+ territory but no bangers. And now I think I should have been recording / taking notes - not to post on social media, but because I can't freaking remember half of them.

@DivestSPD Fuck off with your performative criticism. You cannot have a stable society when there are no consequences to breaking laws

North Bend resident Brandi Kruse complains that fares aren’t enforced on buses she never rides.

@inarchus @Per5pectiveMan @Alonso_GD So shouldn't we try to remove the "bad" instead of worshipping the altar of free markets?. We have seen an erosion of labor rights and wages, explosion of monopolies and "just letting the free market work" has exacerbated that. Let's try something else.

@Giglamesh7 @Per5pectiveMan @Alonso_GD The food system for instance under "Capitalism" has fed more people than ever before in history with diets far superior to any diets of ancient peoples. And also now you can't buy a house anymore. So good and bad.

This is why streaming services have famously reduced their prices, not added stream quality tiers below HD and not added ads. The free market makes sure that if they all raise their prices a new streaming service will enter an-… Wait. [checks notes] No… no no no no, noooooo

@Per5pectiveMan @inarchus @Alonso_GD "Its not capitalism because real capitalism has never been tried yet"

@inarchus @Giglamesh7 @Alonso_GD But that's not "free market" though, or at least not what "invisible hand" and "market always fix itself" propagandist are telling.

@rushicrypto Look into feudalism and serfdom

If Ai replaces all the jobs, where do corporations expect people to earn money to continue being consumers? I am just not understanding why that simple question is not being asked.

@inarchus @Per5pectiveMan @Alonso_GD Yeah I don't believe the laws are meant to work in any way other than what the corporate lobbyist intend. This is unfettered capitalism. There is nothing that prevents it from descending into oligarchy with capital buying the government

@Giglamesh7 @Per5pectiveMan @Alonso_GD The question unfortunately is whether we permit corporate rights of personhood to overtake personal rights of individual people. In a way we already have a lot of the laws on the books, just need the courage to use them.

@inarchus @Per5pectiveMan @Alonso_GD "trust-bursting" and "political reforms" sure sound like fancy ways of saying more regulation

@Per5pectiveMan @Alonso_GD Granted when corporations have accumulated this much wealth and use it to prevent political reforms, clearly something must be done. We've possibly waited too long to do some real trust-busting.

@internetguy63 @CantEverDie Feudalism was the default state of the world except for the last 2 centuries

@CantEverDie At some point the economy will just be billionaires trading money back and forth

ai has a “pr crisis” because we’re being told that it will replace everyones jobs and the plan from there appears to be to have to deal with not having a job or money. no one believes that the tech billionaires will bestow UBI or anything at all onto the “permanent underclass”

@wookash_podcast As a senior I just endlessly nitpick at variable names and call it a day

To people who are *good* at reviewing code (or claim to be hehe) - how is that possible? To what extend you can properly review the code with low familiarity with the codebase? Eg. New project, you jump in, Claude Code PR - 500 lines changed - review now What's the strategy?

@Celsius233Books @jachiam0 ...while enshittifying them and laying off 20% of their staff yoy. So far the marginal gains from AI have almost entirely gone to the billionaire class and yet tech bros trying to puzzle out why everyone hates it

@jachiam0 Sama, Dario, Jensen Huang, etc have spent the last couple of years fear mongering how AI is going to make every current system obsolete due increase in productivity and reduction in cost. Yet all that is happening is companies increasing prices for their existing products.

The AI industry has largely failed to foresee the extremely foreseeable: most normal people think AI is scary because we had decades of science fiction about how scary AI is. We owe the public clear explanations of why we think this can be good and how to make it so.

@amaranta_2015 @nayibbukele Would have been a wonderful question to ask in a society where every company had other goals than just boosting their stock prices on a quarterly basis

@nayibbukele The conversation should evolve around how we push further our civilization with this extraordinary technology. Not cutting jobs but rather enhancing quality of life. Who’s going to buy products if everyone is out of a job?

AI layoffs are a textbook collective action problem: Each company cuts workers to compete, but if everyone does it, demand collapses. You optimized costs and killed your own customers… and your company.

@ladytide228 @KaiMike4 @jeremyslevin What part of what I said was false?. 78% of superdelegates voted for Hillary vs 7% for Bernie well before a single ballot was cast in the primary. Even their party chair was forced to admit it was rigged.

@Giglamesh7 @KaiMike4 @jeremyslevin It's false statements like this is why trump was able to say elections are rigged,all because of Bernie who could not get the base of the party to vote for him(black women) yall made about that🤔

Net favorability among independents: Bernie Sanders +21 Democrats in Congress -36 Net favorability among moderates: Bernie Sanders +24 Democrats in Congress -31 Centrists on this website will do anything to avoid looking in the mirror.

@BjsUiw32692 And suburban democrats who watch CBS apparently. It's pure propaganda. There is no principled reason for any american worker to support it

@Giglamesh7 Congress designed H1B to replace Americans with cheap foreign workers. Congress made replacing Americans explicitly legal. Support for that is limited to billionaires, immigration lawyers, their paid lackies, Marcus Rathbones, and morons.

Eliminating the h1b should be a default leftist position. Its a tool used to suppress worker rights and organization. Only the corporate class would want to keep this going