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The crux of your argument is :

1) keeping wages suppressed might be a good thing for the regional economy and long-term health of the tech industry

2) tech workers are already well compensated

Those are fair opinions, but the behavior described is still illegal. This is one of those situations where we can't have it both ways.

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He makes both of those points, but I think the point of hours argument is that the behavior we're seeing is tech companies agreeing not to cold call, and no other form of not hiring or price fixing, and that as long as this is limited to stopping cold calls it isn't illegal.

I believe it is illegal to have companies collude to not actively recruit ("cold call") from each other. It diminishes the market demand for those employees and indirectly suppresses their wage.

> tech companies agreeing not to cold call, and no other form of not hiring or price fixing, and that as long as this is limited to stopping cold calls it isn't illegal.

Yes, it's still illegal.

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