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The new $100,000 H-1B visa fee was supposed to protect American tech workers. Instead, it’s accelerating offshoring and AI automation. Protectionism in a borderless digital world doesn’t bring jobs home—it just makes domestic talent an unaffordable luxury. Here’s why your career can’t rely on policy bailouts.
The proposed six-figure H1B visa fee isn’t an effort to protect American workers—it’s a political shakedown. By making it prohibitively expensive to hire foreign talent, the government is forcing Big Tech to the negotiating table to extract lobbying concessions. The real outcome? Companies will offshore jobs entirely, shrinking the U.S. tax base and gutting local economies.
AI isn’t killing offshoring jobs — it’s expanding them. By lowering the cost of business processes, AI creates demand for human oversight, exception handling, and communication. But this boom is temporary. The workers thriving today are the last humans before the next wave of automation. Here’s what that means for global white-collar workers.