Americans will always attempt to improve their wages, either by negotiating or job-hopping. An H-1B worker is legally barred from improving his wages. Even if that were possible, he wouldn't even try. The whole point of the job is cheap labor and the salary is infinitely preferable to whatever he gets in Mumbai. The negotiation is over before it even started.
So if Americans aren't able to compete on price, they can compete on quality right? No, because for most staffing needs, quality isn't even a competition. The corporation literally does not care if they put out a worse product than last year or the year before that. You know what is a competition, though? Shareholder value. See point 1.
So if these megacorporations put out deteriorating product lines, what's the solution? Well, if we consult the free market handbook, an hotshot new company that employs quality American labor will outcompete and displace them. American entrepreneurship, baby! Except even if that were possible, it'll take decades, and in the meantime our workforce will have absolutely nothing to do. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
And on top of that, even if a new upstart did dethrone Microsoft, Google, Amazon, or whatever, they'd just lay off all their Americans again.
The H-1B program must be shut down as soon as possible.
Indians hollow out corporations like termites until they collapse, eating money and productivity via corruption and fraud. But you need some sense of generational ownership to care about that and it's all gone.
Why I think it’s a good idea for these mega-corporations to fail. It opens job opportunities for small and self-owned businesses to take over. When the corporations fall, so many patents will also be sent to the wild for that has been weaponized to stop any competition.
they won't fail. they're too big to fail. they'll be propped up with your tax dollars indefinitely.
We're already dead. This is the stage where the scavengers fight over the corpse.