âI used to dismiss the notion that there's a correlation between how much money a person makes and how intelligent they are, but it's looking more and more like there might be something to it. While it's not exactly a bell curve... there's definitely a bell end at the top.â
âa non-RP friend who you donât know
GC processing is based on the country of origin. Each country has a quota. Wait times for Indians on H1B is now 12 years and more. This is why the H1-B visa holders are called âindentured servantsâ. They cannot leave the company since the visa and Green Card are both sponsored by the company.
These visas should not be sponsored by the companies but should be like Canada where they are given directly to the person applying for it. Then these visa holders will be free to shop around for an employer. If this were implemented, tech companies would change their tune.
On the LinkedIn profiles of these visa holders â they all stay in in one job for 10-25 or more years. Not for the great culture of the company, but because they canât abandon the employer who has sponsored them. Also, if their jobs are terminated, they have 60 days to find another equivalent job.
They can switch employers only via an H1-b visa transfer during a CERTAIN stage of the process. Once your GC is filed and you are in a specific stage, you cannot leave.
There are lot of nuances here. Point being that H1-B visa holders are, essentially, indentured.
In Stanley Kubrickâs 1964 film Dr Strangelove, the world teeters on the edge of nuclear annihilation, not because of some grand strategic masterstroke by a villain, but due to paranoia, hubris and the failure to interrogate our own assumptions. The war room is filled with men so consumed by ideology and self-interest that they canât see the absurdity of their actions. Today, this same toxic cocktail of arrogance and fear is magnified by the wildfire spread of misinformation on social media, moving unobstructed and unchecked across platforms, fuelling division and paranoia on an unprecedented scale.
If Dr Strangelove taught us anything, itâs that human folly and fear often pose a greater threat than any external enemy. The conspiratorial reaction to the Magdeburg Christmas attack, where far-right commentators clung to absurd theories about hidden Islamist motives, shows how easily paranoia supplants reality. This kind of thinking doesnât just warp the truth; it also deepens divisions and sows the seeds of societyâs collapse. (...)
Soros is Jewish and has contributed to liberal causes while Musk is cozying up with the German far right AfD Party with neo-Nazi ties. So thereâs that.
