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Originally Posted by Joshua G
are you aware of the 4 million tech sector jobs that are unfulfilled due to lack of americans who bother to educate themselves sufficient to get them?
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That's a myth, at least when it comes to computer-oriented work.
I have been doing IT work for a few decades, and started doing Internet-based corporate programming and development in the early 90s (a year before the Mosaic browser came out, in fact - I was doing Gopher pages). I saw the rise of the Internet, the dotcom boom, the expansion of H1B visas, etc.
There is no shortage of computer professionals in America. There hasn't been a shortage in the last 20 years. The push to take things offshore came from corporations who didn't want to pay American wages. The push for more H1B workers came from corporations who wanted employees who they could force into ridiculous levels of unpaid overtime and dispose of easily when they didn't want them anymore.
I worked for a number of very large corporations who did those things as soon as cheap foreign tech labor became a possibility. I was in on a lot of meetings where the decision makers stated that openly. For about a decade most of my friends were in the IT industry, too, and I still have a lot of friends and acquaintances in it. The "shortage of American IT workers" is still just as much a myth as it was in the past.