The ol “I’m rubber you’re glue” argument.

By the way, this is total bullshit pushed by people who are upset that the loss of H1B labor will mean that they have to pay labor more.

If the offshoring was a comparable product and cheaper, they would have already done it. But guess what - everyone already knows outsourcing leads to a lower quality product!

Right, but is that labor 100k worse a product?

For half that you could staff a new hub office in one of many countries where thats desirable and tax incentives are stacked in its favor. Phillipines. Serbia.

Maybe you send an engineer to go train them there for half the year. Still cheaper.

Now the ancillary benefits, the rental income, the food, the taxation, are flowing in the other direction towards the new host country.

Maybe instead of the H1-B marrying the training engineer and deciding to stay in the US, its the reverse, and now that guy starts a serbian family instead. The flow of knowledge starts to drip away from the US rather than towards it.

Which is why I support this law so thoroughly. Its so obviously terrible for the USA, and great for the rest of the world.

It falls short of the total US blockade that I want, but its another brick in that wall. One at a time Mr President. Step by step. Ban us from sending you goods. Black van people (including beloved childrens authors) at the airports. Prevent trained engineers from working in your country.

There are multi-multi-multi billion dollar companies that no longer have SWEs in the US outside of gigs requiring clearance. you should chatgpt-that-shit and check how many off-shore employees are actually current employed by US companies and then see whether it “leads to lower quality”