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What about professions that just pay lower? If 100k is well above market for a profession it's still not particularly high for a software dev.

But H1Bs are not meant to get _cheap_ labor; they're meant for _impossible to find_ labor.

No, they aren't. They are meant for skilled labour. The bar is a degree.

No, they're meant for jobs that cannot be filled by an American; not just any "skilled labor".