The replacement of free-speaking American professionals with indentured foreign labor allows executives to discard important civic priorities — such as security, privacy, and durability of high-tech infrastructure — in favor of lower costs and higher stock prices. The resulting damage was exposed by losses at Intel, Boeing, and Theranos.
The replacement has continued for so long that a 2021 report by the Census Bureau showed that a large share of trained technology-trained American professionals is not working in tech jobs. “We have tech workers and software programmers who are delivering pizza — which is crazy,” said Jenks.
