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.