Theorycrafting - H1B visas
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When you think of H1B visas, what nationality do you think of?
The US Government and tech companies spent decades recruiting and hiring a particular nationality, to the point where “tech job” is almost synonymous with this particular nationality.
If you were planning to stratify a society into good guys and deplorables, and were planning to use big tech to enforce it, what better nationality to recruit than one that comes from a society where “untouchable people” is already the norm.
Resulting in the tech workers being blind to the unconstitutionality of their actions, because it’s already normalized for them.
Just a Sunday afternoon shower thought…hoping to get everyone’s thoughts on this. Thanks!
I wouldn't be shy in naming my own people of Sri Lanka into this as well, at least the wider population; meek in the face of authority, but dragons in the face of someone below them.
Thankfully though, I work with a bunch of people that are both ethical and professional. But for the most part, people are too scared to even tell their boss that something is literally not possible to be done efficiently.
The office group chat lauds those Indians that make it to CEO positions, only for me to point out that there is nothing special other than the fact that they are obedient "yes-men".
It's rather unfortunate that this is the state of this industry, considering that I grew up in the 90s with a lot of Indians that were well worth their salt. Unfortunately the ability to earn oodles of cash and coveted US citizenship meant this would blow up into the low-quality, 1984-esque nightmare that it is today.
I find the majority of the Indian workers who come to my country in IT to be just smart enough to push buttons and get the job done. Our Sri Lankans are a tad bit better (surprising considering the lack of English fluency), but still.
About the British thing: I don't think it created anything. It just exacerbated that underlying part of our peoples. At least in our country, people are capable but not interested in self-actualization or being independent. I think it's a holdover from being ruled by monarchs that has now been shifted to the government/educational institutions.
Even funnier is how they masturbate to US/UK/Aus/NZ but actively put down the "suddas" ("gori" in Sinhala) that live in the country.
It'll take a long time to fix this shit.