Trump is planning on signing an executive order on Tuesday that will cause a review of the H1-B program. It is just a review, and undoubtedly business interests will step up the pressure, but there are some interesting ideas:
"If you change that current system that awards visas randomly, without regard or skill or wage, to a skill-based awarding, it makes it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers, because you're not bringing in workers at beneath the market wage," the official said. "So it's a very elegant way of solving systemic problems in the H-1B guest worker visa."
Breitbart of course has an article out (though it reads like they need to hire some native speaking editors) -- still, recent college grads face a huge hurdle:
The federal government releases little data on the many different guest-worker programs, but the available evidence says the national population of white-collar contract workers is up to 1.5 million. That population is roughly twice the population of 800,000 Americans who graduate from college with skilled degrees each year.
And finally, lest people forget that progressives also have issues with H1-B visas, here is Bernie Sanders (a decade ago of course) attacking this ploy to make sure money only trickles up by ensuring low wages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR9QdQIKqMc
[Ed Note: Trump did sign the executive order at a photo op in Wisconsin.]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:23PM (3 children)
In these discussions, it is quite common for someone to say "OK, so, all of a sudden, overnight, government completely disappears. What happens now?!" Well, I'll tell you what happens now: Mayhem, violence, death, and despair. Go to the nearest grocery store, and grab as many cans of beans as you can cart away in your shirt.
That is to say, I'm completely uninterested in revolution; rather, the key is evolution: To evolve society into another mode of organization, likely by establishing new organizational structures in parallel to the existing order of things.
Your question is deeply embedded in the context of our present societal organization—that is why you find the scenario so bewildering. However, I'm not saying that the current system should be thrown out and replaced with some nebulous notion of contract negotiation/enforcement—and I'm certainly not going to tell you how society should be organized. Indeed, there is no such thing as Intelligent Design; society must evolve by variation and selection (that is, by trial and error; that is, by producer competition and consumer choice), a process that yields solutions that are often very surprising and downright unintuitive, especially because those solutions solve problems that no sentient mind even new existed.
I will say at most this: The scenario you are describing is essentially war; such activity is usually not very profitable overall—enforcement agencies would have a large incentive to come to agreements about how to establish well publicized, transparent, enforcement of well-defined contracts. Woe to the enforcer that storms a house without overwhelming justification.
As it is now, that justification is "The Law is the Law!" That is, the justification is a cultural reverence—almost a religious reverence—for this one particular organization in the market (the one that calls itself "government").
By comparison, consider that there has never existed a World Government; in a sense, "national" governments exist in a kind of anarchy that is increasing governed by contract negotiation, dispute-resolution, and enforcement as a matter of public justification and agreement between each other. Hell, despite decades of provocation, the United States is still struggling to find a good way to barge into North Korea's house in order to give the resident a bit of roughing up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @02:21AM (1 child)
Nations are ever at war.
Thus would sovereign citizens ever be at war, until they banded together into villages, then city-states, then nations, then we're right back to the beginning.
I believe the best way to argue for your ideal to be workable is to argue that men can become angels.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:56AM
Firstly, you're the one supporting a monopoly on imposition (violent imposition, no less); so, you are the one who would require men to be angels—the ideas of which I speak are a direct acknowledgement that men are not angels, and therefore cannot be trusted with such a monopoly.
Secondly, Bastiat wrote the following around 1848: [bastiat.org]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:53PM
I'm "bewildered" as well. Tell you what - give us all a half dozen working examples of this utopia you preach of, so that we can study how they work.
Oh, what's that you say? There are no working examples of utopia?
STFU, idiot. You're just another fucking false prophet, looking for a cult of clueless idiots to tell you how smart you are. Evolution, you say? Yeah, right - get back to us in a couple million years. People aren't changing much, any sooner than that.
You sound very much like the socialists/communists, who preach on and on about the merits of communism. Except - they can't point at one single successful communistic country. They CAN point to some small groups that have made communism work pretty well, but it simply doesn't scale up very far.
You, and they, are stuck in that monkey theory. You only know a few people, and you just know that if the world would go away, and leave you and your few freinds alone, you could get along just great with your own system.
Get used to the idea that your small scale utopia doesn't fit into the great macrocosm known as "society".
If it makes you feel any better, I don't fit into society either. I'm an asocial asshole, and I don't give two fucks about society. So, you can I are somewhat alike. Your problem is, you expect society to change to meet your expectations. I don't. You should get a grip on reality, and understand that society will do as it will, and it sure as hell isn't going to listen to your brand of nonsense.