I, H1B - Adapted from I, Pencil
I now provide you with the modern version of the 'I, Pencil' essay. Title: I, H1-B Worker: The Illusion of Cheap Labor and the Frozen Ladder of Prosperity [Adapted from Leonard E. Read’s “I, Pencil”] I, H1-B Worker I am an H1-B worker—a temporary skilled laborer brought to the United States under the pretense of filling a "shortage" that no one can quite define. Corporations claim I make pencils cheaper, that my presence keeps innovation alive, that without me, America would fall behind. But peel back the story, and you’ll see a different truth: I am not here because the market needs me. I am here because the system has been rigged to ensure that the wealth of this nation stays locked in the hands of those who control it, while the next generation is told to wait its turn. The Myth of the Indispensable Foreign Worker They say no American can do what I do—or at least, not at the price they want...