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Imagine if you lost your job to an H-1B visa holder and you voted Trump to make America great again. Boy would you feel dumb...
I don't follow. Wouldn't that person be happy that Trump is trying to deport the person you were replaced by in this situation?
Nah. Trump loves H-1Bs. He used to hate H-1Bs but his new corporate masters gave him new convictions.
Anyway, he promised to deport the ten billion illegal immigrants that commit rape, murders and eat pets up and down the country on day one of his presidency. He said nothing about legal indentured workers that make his billionnaire buddies money.
I know all of that, but in the specific situation above wouldn't the laid-off worker feel happy that the company who wronged them is now suffering?
Tesla is suffering? Where?
All I see is Tesla having replaced a bunch of expensive US workers who can unionize and walk out at will with underpaid foreigners who have a strong incentive to not get the sack. The only "cost" to them is a little extra egg on their CEO's face, who already carries an entire omelette on it anyway and doesn't seem to mind.
I'd say Tesla is doing fine, and the only people who suffer are the poor SOBs who got fired, and the rest of us for years to come because a critical number of short-sighted voters decided to reelect the orange utan who will empower his billionnaire buddies to do more of the same.
Where in the post was Tesla mentioned? I'm talking specifically about the hypothetical situation outlined in the post.
Am I misreading something?
I'm not sure which alternate reality you're reading this Lemmy post from, but in mine, I read an article about Tesla firing US employees to replace them with H-1B workers 🙂
I wasn't referring to the article, I was referring to the specific reply that we're chatting about
If you're referring to my reply, then I guess you totally missed the sarcasm.
And just in case you've been living under a very large rock, Donald Trump and his ultra-rich puppetmasters have flip-flopped on the H-1B issue, since they don't need to lie to the American voters anymore, and they are now fully embracing fucking them over and replacing them with lower-wage indentured foreign workers.
If you're talking about something else, then you lost me...
Aha, the flip-flopping is exactly what I missed and why I was confused. Thanks for the explanation.
Item 2 is your error, the foreign person would be here on a work visa so not an illegal immigrant. So person A is without a job while their company gets to pay someone less for doing the same work.
I think I misread "increase" as "decrease" because the conversion for the past few weeks has been on how Republicans want to get rid of H1B workers. Now they've totally 180'd?
Prez Musk did, so it’s slowly starting to spread down the incoming administration. The MAGA underlings still seem to think they have any say and are raging against it though
Trump isn't trying to deport H1B workers, though. Well he was until a few days ago when his billionaire masters said otherwise so now he's not.
Aha that's the missing piece of the puzzle. Thanks!