I don't think that the lower cost is just a culture thing

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Post #123,304 by ben_tilly 10/29/03 2:38:54 PM Reply	I don't think that the lower cost is just a culture thing I strongly suspect that a lot of it is the fact that the employer winds up in a very strong bargaining position with the employee. It's a case of, You do everything I say for whatever I say or you are kicked out of the country. Even if you are willing to be paid less, you aren't as easy to order around. (Of course the H1B workers are more likely to accept subpar wages.) If the employers didn't have this bargaining advantage, I believe that employers would be less enthused about H1Bs. Cheers, Ben "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi]
Post #123,307 by deSitter 10/29/03 2:44:53 PM Reply	interesting point! never considered -drl
Post #123,386 by Ashton 10/30/03 3:24:32 AM Reply	As with prostitution and slavery, Aren't you just describing another degree? Clearly, what a Full-'Libertarian' Employer (unfettered by all those stupid humane laws and such) wants is: ownership of the commodity bodies. It's just bizness; what's wrong with that?
Post #123,441 by mmoffitt 10/30/03 12:37:18 PM Reply	Xactly. Human Resources, I want to OWN & USE them ALL! bcnu, Mikem The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism. - Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"

H1B Shortage - (ChrisR) - (17) - Oct. 28, 2003, 12:35:38 PM EST

Re: H1B Shortage - (deSitter) - (16) - Oct. 28, 2003, 01:35:50 PM EST

H1B Shortage is an oxymoron - (jb4) - (6) - Oct. 28, 2003, 02:12:12 PM EST

That still doesn't stop - (orion) - (5) - Oct. 28, 2003, 07:46:20 PM EST

True, but... - (jb4) - (2) - Oct. 29, 2003, 01:27:28 PM EST

Shouldn't that be - (lincoln) - (1) - Oct. 29, 2003, 09:24:37 PM EST

Uhhh...yeah...that's it...OVERESTIMATING...yeah...(blush!) -NT - (jb4) - Oct. 30, 2003, 12:32:47 PM EST

I disagree with that argument - (tablizer) - (1) - Nov. 2, 2003, 05:36:16 PM EST

I was speaking about the L1 Visa - (orion) - Nov. 3, 2003, 01:12:42 PM EST

Perpetuation of the status quo - (ChrisR) - Oct. 28, 2003, 03:42:40 PM EST

In his own words - (tuberculosis) - (7) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:44:52 AM EDT

I wrote him a thank you note - (tuberculosis) - (6) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:45:43 AM EDT

Good letter except - (jbrabeck) - (1) - Oct. 29, 2003, 02:10:37 PM EST

Not in Colorado - (deSitter) - Oct. 29, 2003, 02:18:42 PM EST

I don't think that the lower cost is just a culture thing - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Oct. 29, 2003, 02:38:54 PM EST

interesting point! never considered -NT - (deSitter) - Oct. 29, 2003, 02:44:53 PM EST

As with prostitution and slavery, - (Ashton) - (1) - Oct. 30, 2003, 03:24:32 AM EST

Xactly. Human Resources, I want to OWN & USE them ALL! -NT - (mmoffitt) - Oct. 30, 2003, 12:37:18 PM EST

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