When the industry, be it tech or otherwise, relies on importing labor to reduce engineering cost, it signals not just a market failure, but a moral one. It’s cheaper to poach finished talent from abroad than to help shape it at home. But that strategy cannibalizes domestic potential, depresses wages, and abdicates responsibility for rebuilding a functional educational pipeline. H1B, in this context, is not solving a talent gap, it’s anesthetizing the consequences of long-term institutional neglect.
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Could the strategy just be the following?
They're trying to skim the top x percentile off the tech workforce?
With a population of > 1 bln India/China will have a lot more highly gifted and educated people than US will ever be able to birth/teach. Just about population size.
US can hardly triple the number of people so it's easier to get talent from abroad.
Yes, one can come up with justifications and excuses for the status quo, but that does not change the impact of the way the system today works.
I had no intention to justify. Just trying to reason.
Imbalances between jurisdictions will always exist, creating problems like this one.
Politics is hard.
In order to have systems slowly adapting and gently drifting into new dynamic equilibria, instead of swinging into place with lots of friction and losses after shocks .. politicians would have to put political decisions into place gradually.
But what they often do is impose step functions on the world.
Operating physical/mechanical systems should teach anyone that it has profound benefits to do gradual small changes, see how the system reacts and then adjust.
In law, regulation by step function can easily be done. No physics or inertia to immediately and inevitably punish the person in control, as would be the case when trying to halt your bike instantly.
You also are conflating the 1:1000000 with the 20:1. When you do, you are reversing the argument and not being honest
Not being honest? :D
Don't get what you're talking about.
Never mind, I was trying to come up with an explanation for why things are happening .. I'm not arguing for/against some position here.
We're probably just talking/writing past each other.