Last part of the last paragraph, we agree.

We need wage increases across the board, not importing new workers to fill roles at lower wages because we have plenty of workers that only need higher wages to fill those vacant roles.

They are generally paid well over a living wage for a position that a citizen could occupy at a market wage that is even higher. Median tech job income is over $100k, twice the national average.

Hiring a citizen costs more, so profit chasing dictates hiring an immigrant that can be paid less than market rate. Hiring an immigrant under an H1-B not only is cheaper in wages, but also gives the company more power over the employee because they can fire that person and then they get deported for not being sponsored.

Hiring an H1-B at a cheaper rate also suppresses wages for citizens.

Unemployment in tech is like 3%, we don’t need H1-B visa for tech jobs. We don’t even need H1-Bs for the industries with the highest unemployment, they need to increase wages to attract the nearly 7 million unemployed in the US, and there are even more people that are underemployed or have given up because wages are too low across the board.

Adding mandated wage requirements would undermine the whole H1-B program, which is great. I don’t think we should allow H1-Bs for jobs that we have adequate domestic supply for and it should be a pain in the dick to get.

If CS tried to unionize, they would get replaced with AI and H1-Bs so fast at this point. They should have tried that like 20 years ago when they were in hot demand.

Microsoft fired 15,000 people in the last year, and applied for 14,000 H1-B visa.

They are cutting costs and improving productivity by taking advantage of people from other countries who have the threat of deportation hanging over their heads to keep them compliant.

The scary part is people are trying to argue that children can give consent, and they aren’t Republicans.

The amount you get off a plant is directly tied to interstitial node density and number, which autos can’t control. You have to do twice as many harvests to yield the same weight as a photo in the same period.

Not to mention you can’t clone autos, so your genetics are way too variable.

For personal use autos are a nice and easy option, not for commercial chasing consistency and yield per dollar. Some commercial growers will do auto for res, but all the flower grows are photos for good reason.

Nobody they are concerned about grows autos and the market for those is as small as those plants.

Yes, I know autos aren’t tiny anymore, but they can’t pull 4 zips off of one as easy as an actual strain.

Something like that wouldn’t be flagged as suspicious. If you were using a large amount of power for 16 hours a day for a few months and then for 12 hours a day for a few months, that would be suspicious because that usage profile matches a marijuana grow.

They can also “fingerprint” certain power usage like a refrigerator and filter out that noise from the power usage profile to eliminate other innocuous things to build a stronger argument that an illegal grow is happening. The profile of an electric car charging plus tracking data on your phone would eliminate the power usage from charging as being suspect, but that would require a competent detective actually doing their job properly…