Misruption: “Software is eating the moral compass”

Does anyone else also find the following statement plainly stupid:<p>&gt;H1B immigrant labor from India has clearly become a &quot;strategic&quot; sourcing model for tech giants as in the past 2 years as both Microsoft &amp; Google have appointed CEOs and other executives from India--while backing open borders, pro H1B tech lobby FWD.us.<p>Does the author really think the two Indian ex-pats were made CEOs of respective companies because of their country of origin?

&gt;&gt; import hundreds of thousands of foreigners to replace their American workers<p>Oh FFS. Stopped reading there. I don&#x27;t know what incentives are there for hiring immigrants. Immigration is hard and you end up with a less flexible employee. Immigrants are getting hired because they&#x27;re people, and they happen to be people who are qualified for the jobs.

This makes no sense: &quot;While simultaneously, big tech engages in non-productive stock buybacks to prop up valuations with cash resources better used for new R&amp;D or M&amp;A&quot;<p>What?! It isn&#x27;t like the money used in a stock buyback just disappears from the economy. That money will be turned around and invested in some other company, that might actually needs money and has a purpose to use it for. That is how the economy works.<p>It is much better at a macroeconomic level for a company to return cash that it doesn&#x27;t feel it can efficiently use to its investors, rather than try to chase some investment that won&#x27;t have a good return just because you have the money.<p>This whole site seems pretty lacking in terms of understanding of how things work.

&gt; Research Interns Wanted [...]<p>&gt; Think of us as your &#x27;side project&#x27; to drive better corporate citizenship in big tech.<p>And now we know why their list of sins doesn&#x27;t include unpaid&#x2F;underpaid internships as gateways to employment that few outside of well of backgrounds can afford to take?<p>:)

While some points this raises are valid, there is a lot h1b fear mongering. Also, this site seems to be basically for americans and non-americans are explicitly unwelcome.

Yeah, that got eh moderately fast.<p>But I like the word! Disruption that&#x27;s malicious, or creates more issues than it solves.<p>Then again, not sure I know of any actual misruption - closest I can think of is the lack of career for Uber&#x2F;Lyft drivers, and that Oculus will cause eye issues in kids and the VR industry learned that in the 80s.

Ahh sweet Rhetoric!<p>Arguments of sophistry and nationalism are not data, but bias. None deserve preference for the accident of birth. Over the whole course of the human experience, the idea of nation is a distinction sans difference.

&gt; Big tech&#x27;s dangerous and irresponsible promotion of artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles, consumer drones, virtual reality, robotics, digital &#x27;implants&#x27; and many other emerging technologies now borders on the obscene.<p>I see this initiative is run by luddites.