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cogman10 ◴[] No.45306123[source]
IMO, the fee is the wrong thing that needs adjusting. It's the salary that should be adjusted. The minimum salary for an H1B should be $200k. It's something like 50k right now which is ridiculous especially with all the restrictions an applicant is under. It both suppresses wages and abuses the worker.
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fogzen ◴[] No.45306997[source]
IMO the minimum salary should be $0 and Americans should be free to hire whoever they want, without paying a fee and asking permission from the government. Non-citizens should be subject to the same minimum wage and workplace regulations as everywhere else. Whoever wants to come to America should be able to freely come, treated the same as anyone else.

But that would be a free market that respected human rights, and Americans don't want that! Equality? Freedom? That's just marketing!

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1. danenania ◴[] No.45308527[source]
If the non-citizen worker can't change jobs as easily as an American can, you still don't really have freedom.