The True Purpose Of The H1-B Program

I stumbled across an article entitled "Trapped in Silicon Valley’s Hidden Caste System" which is about an Indian tech worker's concerns that his Indian co-workers and managers might learn that he is actually from one of the lower Indian castes. Of course my first thought was that this is another example of foreign workers importing their problems into the United States. But then I saw the jaw-dropping amounts he must be earning: the article relates that when he first came to the United States, his offer package at Facebook as a software engineer was almost $450,000; he lives in a $2 million dollar home. The article also mentions that "[i]n Silicon Valley, it’s routine for people from India to land high-paying jobs; they make up a full quarter of the technical workforce."

    So my next thought was about how that job--and most of the others that went to Indians--should have been held by Americans. 

    I've noted statistics before that show that H1-B tech jobs generally pay less than the same job held by Americans, which supports what Peter Turchin's historical research has shown about immigrant labor: it is intended to keep down wages. But is that all that is behind it? After all, if pushing wages down was all that was needed, why the constant anti-American messaging? (See, e.g., "Woke Captain America Says Captain America Doesn't Represent America").

    In an excellent video at his Rumble channel, freedomain, Stefan Molyneux suggests in his video, "Is the H-1B Good for America?," that the true purpose of the H1-B visa program isn't merely to keep wages low for STEM, but to keep Americans from being able to get jobs that would allow them to form families. Because the goal, he argues, is to create a more compliant population willing to accept the collapse of their economy and birth rates. This goal, by the way, is why he believes that industrial jobs were also sent overseas and remain there.