GC processing is based on the country of origin. Each country has a quota. Wait times for Indians on H1B is now 12 years and more. This is why the H1-B visa holders are called âindentured servantsâ. They cannot leave the company since the visa and Green Card are both sponsored by the company.
These visas should not be sponsored by the companies but should be like Canada where they are given directly to the person applying for it. Then these visa holders will be free to shop around for an employer. If this were implemented, tech companies would change their tune.
On the LinkedIn profiles of these visa holders â they all stay in in one job for 10-25 or more years. Not for the great culture of the company, but because they canât abandon the employer who has sponsored them. Also, if their jobs are terminated, they have 60 days to find another equivalent job.
They can switch employers only via an H1-b visa transfer during a CERTAIN stage of the process. Once your GC is filed and you are in a specific stage, you cannot leave.
There are lot of nuances here. Point being that H1-B visa holders are, essentially, indentured.
In Stanley Kubrickâs 1964 film Dr Strangelove, the world teeters on the edge of nuclear annihilation, not because of some grand strategic masterstroke by a villain, but due to paranoia, hubris and the failure to interrogate our own assumptions. The war room is filled with men so consumed by ideology and self-interest that they canât see the absurdity of their actions. Today, this same toxic cocktail of arrogance and fear is magnified by the wildfire spread of misinformation on social media, moving unobstructed and unchecked across platforms, fuelling division and paranoia on an unprecedented scale.
If Dr Strangelove taught us anything, itâs that human folly and fear often pose a greater threat than any external enemy. The conspiratorial reaction to the Magdeburg Christmas attack, where far-right commentators clung to absurd theories about hidden Islamist motives, shows how easily paranoia supplants reality. This kind of thinking doesnât just warp the truth; it also deepens divisions and sows the seeds of societyâs collapse. (...)
Soros is Jewish and has contributed to liberal causes while Musk is cozying up with the German far right AfD Party with neo-Nazi ties. So thereâs that.
George Soros doesn't have the Billions Musk has, and he also doesn't have Technology contracts with the U.S. Government. There is nothing level in a field where an unelected man can actually advise a President about policy that could benefit his own profit. Here's a run down of the inequality just based on finances:
Musk Net Worth: $439 BILLION
Soros Net worth: $7.2 BILLION
Soros didn't personally buy advertising for or against a candidate to play in different regions of the country like Musk did.
Elon Musk was the largest donor in the 2024 election cycle, spending at least $277 million to back President-elect Donald Trump.
Soros is also not a fan of shutting the Government down, while Musk has said 'go for it.'
Michael Lewis has addressed the subject of government employees doing things that no one knows about. His book, The Coming Storm, talks about the National Weather Service and how it's under attack by people who get their weather info from AccuWeather et al, so why do we need the NWS?
This podcast episode that I've linked to before talks about one guy whose work would never have been done by a private sector worker, but has saved a lot of lives. tl;dr: cutting jobs they don't understand = lives lost. The Art of the Untold Story
