Ideas Weave Every Narrative with AI.
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.
Tech workers are caught in a painful paradox: AI lets them work 5x faster while filling them with existential dread. The advice to ‘stay curious’ isn’t neutral — it’s a mechanism to pacify anger and preserve the status quo. This article argues that righteous anger is the rational response to a system that extracts value from your fear, and that the only real path to agency is recognizing this as a power problem, not a technology one.
Tech workers champion open borders not out of altruism, but out of a deep ideological commitment to meritocracy that overrides their own economic self-interest. The result? Ethnic enclaves inside American offices, wage suppression, and a corporate hierarchy that rewards networks over skill. It’s time to ask who really benefits.