Hundreds of thousands of STEM workers who have graduated with professional science and math degrees and have substantial tech experience are unemployed in the U.S. Yet American employers continue the fiction that they can’t find Americans to do these jobs, requiring them to import foreign workers under the H-1B visa program.
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The TMI Show" talk show. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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I recall, with great clarity, that when the internet came to town, the print media pointed out — quite frantically — that this brave new tech was, literally, killing us. “You are taking a product — that took weeks of research, interviewing, fact checking, writing, and designing — and simply cut-and-pasting it onto another website for free.”
The response then was along the lines of “tough.”
I believe the phrase is that the chickens have come home to roost. Or perhaps sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. In either case, I am sure sorry that all these young’uns who expected to be handed six-figure jobs with incredible futures are now discovering that, well, “tough.”
With a universal basic income these unemployed would get enough to buy food and pay rent. They could use their freedom from employment to start new companies, create art, work at charities, …. They wouldn’t be beholden to the corporatists’ whims. The world would be much richer for the change.
Brother fewer than half of young Americans are white. Ganging up on Indians doesn’t actually work when you’re a minority yourself.