| ▲ | knuppar 2 hours ago | |
you're not factoring in a few specific things: 1) how many of these people leave the country in this analysis. 2) OPTs likely will get h1b/l1s/leave the country and are being counted distinctly. 3) not all h1b/l1/OPTs are for tech. majority for sure, but there's a conversation factor. specially in the current situation that green cards are much harder to obtain and many OPTs don't find a job, I expect 1 to be much larger than in the past. as a more general observation, this line of reasoning does fit lump of labor fallacies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy | ||
| ▲ | NikolaNovak 13 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
Oh, there's a name for it! I've sometimes been struggling to verbalize in the past the logical issue I perceived with the "immigrants steal are jobs" absolutists, and this is a useful reference. | ||