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Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs

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391 points JSeymourATL | 2 comments | 14 Nov 24 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.424s | source
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ein0p ◴[14 Nov 24 17:03 UTC] No.42138257[source]▶
And the solution has been obvious all along, and was even proposed by Trump in his first term. Turn H1B into an auction so that only just creme de la creme makes it through, limit the numbers, and issue green cards sooner, with no additional bureaucatic bullshit. Maybe he'll finally get to do it this time.
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bell-cot ◴[14 Nov 24 17:36 UTC] No.42138734[source]▶
H1B auctions are perfect, so long as you want to maximize the total dollars "saved" by American businesses, by hiring cheaper foreign workers.

But if you actually want a way to hire top-skill foreign workers in specialties where America is short on local talent? No, sorry. 99.5% of specialties don't and won't pay enough to win an auction where Big Tech has opened its checkbooks.

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ein0p ◴[14 Nov 24 17:38 UTC] No.42138762[source]▶
Yes, then those specialties will have to pay Americans more, rather than dump cheap foreign workers into the labor market. It's by design.
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1. bell-cot ◴[14 Nov 24 19:38 UTC] No.42140269[source]▶
So the moment that someone wants to hire a bilingual child care worker who has a fairly obscure second language (vs. English/French, English/Spanish, English/German, etc.), you think it's perfectly reasonable to 10X the pay rate?

Ditto if a museum is hosting an exhibition of art from some tiny country, and wants a few docents who can read the inscriptions?

Ditto if ...

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2. John_Cena ◴[14 Nov 24 23:54 UTC] No.42142602[source]▶
I couldn't care less for the incentives of a corporation. Why are they allowed to slight the environment for their benefit but I cannot for my own? Am I not represented in this country (nobody is, your votes can't compete with consolidated bribery)