• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I live in a big tech city and it’s a very hot topic here on both sides. A lot of HB-1 visa holders are basically ghettoized in their companies and socially from the ‘tech bro’ workers who are from upper middle class white/asian families. They do a lot of the same work, but their wage differential is like a factor of 2-4x for the same job.

    But true that it’s not a big deal nationally, which seems to mostly focus on latin american emigration of uneducated low wage laborers.

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      5 days ago

      That’s fair. I didn’t realise how socially divisive the H1Bs were, though it makes sense now that you mention it.

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        5 days ago

        one of my friends rents out his spare bedroom to hb-1 holders and people flip out at him for it. he’s just a nice guy looking to give someone a leg up in this shitty world. and the people who shit on him the most are the ones who got houses paid for by their parents.