it’s like you believe you can tariff them expecting they won’t do the same. Why do you believe the rest of the world is not going to retaliate and why do you believe America can prosper without the rest of the world?

What’s the point of having a military alliance with countries you puts tariffs on? That’s unfriendly to say the least.

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    Sounds like you have no clue about the abuse endured by H1B recipients in this country.

    Or you’re just another bad actor trying to adopt the language of the oppressed to defend their exploitation.

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      H1B recipients are horribly abused, true. But that’s because they’re used the way capitalism uses everyone it considers replaceable - grind them down and move onto the next. Doesn’t apply to - again - the literally best-on-the-planet engineers. They’re not coding for Xitter, they can walk at any time and find employment and visas elsewhere.

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        “…they can walk at any time…”

        No, they often can’t. That’s one of the worst abuses imposed upon them.

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          Engineers from Taiwan that have chip design skills? Yes, they can walk at any time.

          You’re taking a general case of H1B visa abuse–which is completely valid in broad terms–and applying it to a specialized case where the materials conditions are different.

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            That seems an expectation formed based on opinion of how things should work, and not in any way a reflection of how US capitalist policy has ever actually worked throughout history.

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                Yes, when they are in conditions that afford them reasonable employment protections. The chipmaker’s visa would make slaves of them. If they quit, they’ll be deported back to China, and I expect charged with treason when they get back.

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                  Why would people from Taiwan be deported to China? Even if the US wanted to punish them, Trump hates China more than anybody else.

                  With a growing number of ARM and RISC-V manufacturers out there, people with these skills are in high demand. You’re completely off base.

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                    The whole point of the chips act is bring chip manufacturing to the US so we’re no longer disputing sovereignty for Taiwan to protect the chip manufacturing industry. If we get to the point that we have imported laborers from Taiwan manufacturing chips in the US, the US will no longer be defending Taiwan the way it is now, and it will be firmly under China’s control.

                    Any indentured servants here on a chipmaker’s visa will be fully aware that quitting their jobs will likely result in deportation back to China, and all of the legal ramifications they’ll face back at home. This is already an issue with h1b’s, and will be dramatically worse under this new visa with all of the foreign policy issues intertwined.