[quote=lifeisgood]By the way, I didn’t intend to start a debate about if legal workers pay their taxes. I’m not an idiot. Of course I know that legal workers pay taxes.[/quote]
I didn’t say you were an idiot. But I see a lot of misplaced anger directed at the H1-B program and the people on H1-B. Out of all the H1-B people that I have had the opportunity to work with, I have never encountered one that wasn’t sharp and that didn’t deserve that position, nor did we ever short change them by paying them less than other people. That’s not to say that abuses don’t happen, and it probably can happen more readily in job roles which has considerable less specialization and things that have reached maturity (like in a lot of parts of IT)….
The bigger problem is the decisions corporations make in trying to move tier 1 programs abroad thinking that it’s really going to work. I’m not even against offshoring if it makes sense. But when a management team makes uses that as a default solution to all the business’s problem, you know the company is headed in the wrong direction, because in the end you know it’s doomed to fail for everyone involved, both the employees, the company, and ultimately the shareholders, if you don’t have the best people working on the projects that’s suppose to drive growth and care more about cost savings than investing in growth…
A lot of these new bean counters don’t understand you simply cannot offshore/outsource ingenuity and creativity, and americans tend to be the ones that are creative. If you’re company is faced with dismal growth prospects, you’re just asking for trouble if you focus on cost reduction and running the business.
That’s why I think all this push into IOT is definitely going to happen. We’re going to see innovation definitely. It’s just not going to happen at Qualcomm or any of the other U.S. chip companies. Because none of them are serious in investing good money into the creative “people” that can actually think of something useful.
That’s why you see this IOT ingenuity all happening at these small startups like Fitbit.
