>"People that are working with H1B visas are being paid between 30% and 35% less than an American worker!"
why would any1 ever hire American if h-b1 exists kek
>OpenAi, ChatGPT (non-work mode)
"No. H-1B is not generally considered a socialist program.
It is better classified as a government-regulated labor-immigration program operating within a market economy. Private employers decide whether they want to hire an H-1B worker, generally pay the worker, and compete for labor; the government sets eligibility, wage/compliance rules, numerical caps, and immigration status.
That distinction is useful for the research we've been doing: government regulation or a government program ≠ socialism by itself. Socialism concerns ownership/control of productive resources and the economic system more broadly. H-1B regulates who may legally work for private employers under particular conditions; it doesn't transfer those employers into social ownership.
There are certainly arguments from both the left and right over whether H-1B helps employers, harms or complements U.S. workers, suppresses wages, fills genuine skill shortages, etc.—but those are debates about the effects of the program, not evidence that H-1B itself is socialist."