Update: First they took the manufacturing jobs and I didn't complain

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59. Its my understanding that by definition, the various programs that use L-1 visa holders are supposed

to be for "skilled" workers only. But in practice it seems that most of them aren't so much. They have to have a degree, a 4 year degree, but they are often close to entry level, they are the people who a decade or so would have been taken by a college grad or a really good self taught person at the beginning of their career. the motivation is lower wages. They literally can get four workers for what they would normally pay for one.

Businesses that specialize in a computer based product would be less likely to hire them, they basically get the jobs in non-computing centric industries that require a warm body there and a medium level of computer skill. Sure, they do coding, that is why they are there.

Yes, that is the unskilled job of the future. Not so far into the future, software will write most software.

Most unskilled jobs are going away, within the next two or three decades, for good. To get and keep a stable job somebody is going to have to command their area, their niche and the niche they command will likely need to be much closer to unique than today.

Almost nobody "gets" this unless they work (or have worked in the past) on a day to day basis with cutting edge technology or close to it. People who do, don't need to be told that technology is improving at an exponentially increasing rate, they live it.

The GATS, in particular, with its Mode Four can be thought of a huge global trade of jobs for markets - a cynical global poker game with peoples lives. With its goal being perserving the concentration of wealth at the top by means of deception and a divide and conquer strategy.

To understand it, one needs to understand that 20 years ago trade negotiators thought that the developing countries would see 20 or 30 years of rapid, even meteoric growth. Due to their lower penetration of automation, rapid increases in spending power, people buying the necessities of modern life for the first time, and mobile capital investing there to take advantage of the growth.

But I think they are realizing now that the period of growth will be much shorter and less robust. And the impact on our own country of trading all those jobs away will be potentially devastating. Economic implosion.

Thats why endorsing the wife of the man who signed us into that horrible deal is a mistake.