Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2024-12 to 2025-01.
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The influence of tech industry oligarchs within the Trump administration creates a conflict with the populist agenda of figures like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller who oppose H1B visas.
“one of the things I heard though that was interesting is he's saying heard from X Y and Z and this is the danger of sort of surrounding yourself with a literal circle of oligarchs as we're seeing right now is that they're the ones who have your ear over banon and Steven Miller”
Breaking Points · Jan 2025 · 3 episodes · 369K views on this topicH1B and similar guest worker programs are fundamentally exploitative to the workers themselves and have a deleterious effect on the existing American workforce.
“it does created create this indentured servant class that is completely beholden to you know whatever whether their corporate boss wants in there their their immigration status depends on pleasing their corporate boss”
Breaking Points · Jan 2025 · 2 episodes · 265K views on this topicHasan Piker believes the H1B visa program is intentionally utilized to displace the American workforce with more exploitable, lower-wage migrant labor to increase corporate profits.
“the H1B Visa program absolutely is utilized in a way to create further Expendable and and more exploitable labor”
HasanAbi · Jan 2025 · 1 episode · 158K views on this topicThe H1B visa program is primarily used by employers to reduce labor costs by hiring cheaper, compliant foreign workers rather than addressing a genuine shortage of skilled American employees.
“what they say is no actually what you like is that you can pay that Mater D onethird to a half less than you pay the American worker and the Mater D is not going to complain about about sexual harassment by the manager not going to make demands about wages”
Breaking Points · Jan 2025 · 1 episode · 104K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.