Reply #9: Yes, that is what our government and the corporations want us to believe

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And if we're truly believing in a "flat world," we shouldn't be afraid of these people supposedly competing against us from afar. So far I'm not impressed by the service industry of India. It's cheap of course, but now the unseen costs of offshoring seem to be boomeranging back on these companies. US companies can't maintain quality when the workers and managers are a world apart. Managers go insane when they have to work 8-5 and then have development meetings for the offshore teams at 11pm. If it can't be read from a script or coded from a template, it seems Indian firms have a hard time doing it.

The bulk of the problem is, of course, that the vast majority of these people on H-1Bs aren't that special and are displacing American workers for no reason other than money. The O-1 visa is available for the foreign nationals who are geniuses that we need in this country for whatever reason.