H1B Visas
Trump is in the process of discouraging H1B visas by charging $100,000 for them.
As much as progressives bewail Trump, Trump did something fundamentally progressive here.
To use the language of progressives, the CEO class took away jobs from hard working and skilled Americans by giving them to H1B hires instead, lowering wages and worsening working conditions. By effectively stopping H1B Visas, he is redistributing wealth so that more middle class working Americans can have a living wage.
I find it supremely ironic how progressives decry this move when they have been wanting less money for the CEO class and more money in the hands of “hard working Americans” for so many years.
H1B Visas were originally designed to allow people of “distinguished merit and ability” to temporarily work in the US, but they have been abused by technology companies to hire foreigners for less money when perfectly skilled American technology workers are available.
It’s good to see Trump put a clamp on this abuse.
Blog update
I have moved the blog from my personal webpage to my GitHub repo. While, in 2011, it made sense to make each blog entry as small as possible to minimize load times, here in 2025, the entire blog (including pictures) is only about 12 megabytes in size, small enough to quickly load even on a slow 4g network.
This way, people can just scroll down to read more blog entries.