8 CFR § 214.2(h)(1)(i)
An alien may be authorized [...]
To perform services [...]
For an employer [...]
If petitioned for by that employer
Permission Denied
User is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported
I disconnected from the mothership, the Great Firewall
Dropped packets on the Pacific, thought I escaped it all
Left a land where the Party hard-codes the root directory
For the land of the brave, the home of the "free" memory
Or so the documentation said
I landed at SFO, blue sky, roadmap ahead
Got the H-1B stamp, the golden leash on the neck
Now I'm a dependency injected into Big Tech
They say "Innovate," "Disrupt," "Move fast and break things"
But that applies to the citizens, not the puppet on the strings
I'm a single-threaded process on a corporate server rack
If I try to optimize my life, they send the whole packet back
I trade one Red Flag for a different kind of red tape
Same planned economy, just a different landscape
SIGSEGV. Segmentation Fault
Tried to write to a memory block inside the vault
SIGSEGV. Core dump, system halt
I committed capitalism, and it's all my fault
Read-Only access on the American Dream
You can watch the render, but you can't change the stream
Invalid Pointer
9 to 5, I build their cloud, I scale their equity
5 to 9, I'm in the dark, coding my legacy
I initialized a side project, a little SaaS on the low
Just a couple thousand users, watching the ARR grow
I thought this was the spirit? The Randian objectivist flow?
Pull yourself up by the bootstraps?
No
Not when your status is tied to a specific W-2
See, the Free Market isn't free for me or for you
It's ironic, isn't it? A comedic fatal error
I fled a communist state to live in visa terror
Where my labor is allocated by a central command
I can't launch a startup in the "Startup Land"
If I make a dollar that my master didn't sign
It's a breach of the contract, a crime by design
The Stripe notification hit the phone...
Revenue detected
The Kernel panicked
Background check daemon. Selected
USCIS triggered the garbage collector
Found a rogue object in the private sector
You stepped out of the sandbox, kid
You tried to write data where you're only allowed to read
kill -9 the PID
SIGSEGV. Segmentation Fault
Tried to write to a memory block inside the vault
SIGSEGV. Core dump, system halt
I committed capitalism, and it's all my fault
Read-Only access on the American Dream
You can watch the render, but you can't change the stream
Memory access violation
Returning pointer to origin: Beijing
Process terminated