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Join [a bunch of millionaires] in [reducing their labor expenses]. You're not fooling anyone. Just bribe congress in the standard way and get your monstrous evil done.

Join [a bunch of thousandaires] in [rising up from poverty].

Interesting.. this has little to do with the H1-B visa program but instead is mostly about the day to day immigration policies like Border Patrol, amnesty, and citizenship.

From fwd.us: "program must also include an increase in the number of H-1B visas"

There's no debate about this, like some theory of quantum mechanics. These are a bunch of people, many billionaires, who have banded together to push forward their class interests - to enrich their billions even further, at our expense - at a time when the unemployment rate is above what it was, from 1984 to 2009 (aside from two months in 1992). They are very well organized. This message is being typed on a web site of a wealthy person whose face is plastered on fwd.us.

It talks of the "tech community" and shows that little weasel Mark Pincus as a supporter. Pincus who robbed employees of their options once the startup lottery was won. I guess we the people who actually work the long hours, Ron Conman, Pincus, Rabois and all the people featured all all together in one big "community" where we all want more H1-B visas.

It's not a topic of debate, your statements on it just reflect which side your bread is buttered on. There are those of us who code and maintain servers and databases and routers, those of us who create all of the wealth. There are those - the VCs, the incubators, the angels, and especially the old aristocracy of money these middlemen get their money from, who are parasites on those of us who create wealth.

There is no debate like whether BSD or Linux, or vi or emacs is better. People have a class interest, and their feelings about this are just another way to affirm that fact.

It's really one of the few things in the modern economy still clearly fitting the old Marxist narrative. It really is capital crushing labor.

Yes, Capital Vol. 1 should really be required reading. We're never going to resolve that tension until we can talk about it clearly.

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