20, 30 years ago, one of my aunts used to say that she saw "The American Dream" fading away. She and her husband had lived, via government jobs, in many countries. "The gap between rich and poor is widening," she'd say. "We're becoming like the countries with a few super-rich, and masses of poor people."
I, being young, thought she must be mistaken. Today, I think she was reading the tea leaves, forward direction.
In the conversation on H1Bs yesterday, I found myself conversing with a gentleman in high tech, an H1B himself. He said:
I work on a team right now where my entire QA team/infrastructure is based in 3 different American cities, and I am in a 4th. It works out just fine. I expect it would work fine even if my QA team were in 3 different Indian cities.
He said he stayed because,
"This is still the greatest country in the world; the city on a shining hill; the home of freedom.
My reply began:
With respect, I think that's a mirage, a fantasy.
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