{"id":331,"date":"2006-12-11T12:05:42","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T17:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smilingdogapps.com\/wordpress\/?p=16"},"modified":"2006-12-11T12:05:42","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T17:05:42","slug":"more-h1-b-visa-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/11\/more-h1-b-visa-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"More H1-B Visa Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Chronicle recently wrote about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/12\/07\/EDGOULJ5BC1.DTL&#038;sn=001&#038;sc=1000\">lying software industry<\/a>. Spearheaded by Bill Gates and Andy Grove, the software companies are claiming that they can&#8217;t get enough tech workers and need to expand the H1-B visa program.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course, what they really mean to say is that they can&#8217;t get enough <em>cheap<\/em> workers.\u00a0 The same thing happened to skilled construction workers in the 80s.\u00a0 Congress and the executive branch turned their heads while immigrants streamed into the US and drove down wages.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s hardly possible for a person to work as a carpenter and support a family at this point.\u00a0 Non-union construction wages have dropped significantly in the last 20 years when accounting for inflation.\u00a0 My guess is that within 10 years, programmers are going to be paid in a way that families will require 2 incomes and even at that, the total income will only allow for a very modest standard of living.\u00a0 I mean, why bust your ass in college and program all night long to enter an unstable workforce where you can&#8217;t enjoy the fruits of your hard work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Chronicle recently wrote about the lying software industry. Spearheaded by Bill Gates and Andy Grove, the software companies are claiming that they can&#8217;t get enough tech workers and need to expand the H1-B visa program.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course, what they really mean to say is that they can&#8217;t get enough cheap workers.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consulting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}