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For every person you can cherry pick, I can name you 50 names of cannon fodder that nobody ever heard of.

For most of my career, I've watched as shitty body shops stuff unqualified candidates at low rates to "farm" them into more valuable workers. They don't hire onshore workers because they lose the visa leverage and hose many of them with "company town" style bullshit like corporate housing.

I'd love to have the opportunity to pull in some equally unqualified urban and rural high school students whose only prospects are Walmart, truck driving or the army and give them the same opportunity. Many would suck, but many others would flourish and build meaningful careers.



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