On: New $100k H-1B visa fee pushes tech jobs offshore

[bijowo1676]

its a matter of building a sustaining tech ecosystem: colleges, employers, investors ecosystem.

Once they figure out the ecosystem Canada can arbitrage away the broken US immigration policies and anti-immigrant bigotry.

Just as manufacturing jobs in heartland have left US for Asia, so do tech jobs can leave US for Canada, India and elsewhere

[orangedog → bijowo1676]

The us is not anti-immigrant, it accepts massive numbers of immigrants every year. It would be below sustainable birthrate without it.

[chaostheory → orangedog]

That was before the current administration. We are already below a sustainable birth rate directly thanks to policies by Miller.

[chaostheory → bijowo1676]

> Once they figure out the ecosystem Canada

1. It is not easy to immigrate to Canada.

2. There is also a lot of anti-immigrant sentiment in Canada even from people on the left if you’re not white. Canadians just do not like Asians anymore.

3. Canada has so much red tape for business that it forces many entrepreneurial Canadians to either gravitate towards real estate, online streaming as entertainers, or simply just move down south.