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There's also, by definition, a shortage of talent willing to work for far-below-market wages. It's in employers' best interest to address this "shortage".

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Exactly. They found a way to get around the problem of paying market wages by changing the market.

Sounds more like H-1B is just 21st century legal mean for the company to chain down those employees (like indentured servants of the past).

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