[Sodman]

As of May 2023 there are[0] over 300,000 tech job listings open and unfilled across the country.

There are an additional 65,000 H1B visas available each year to applicants with bachelor's degrees in STEM, and an additional 20,000 degrees available for those with masters degrees in STEM. So those +85,000 individuals wouldn't even cover one third of the currently open positions (and notably, more positions are opening every day right now, where the cap is only renewed annually).

[0] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3542681/how-many-jobs-...

[epicureanideal]

Are you sure those 300,000 are not “ghost jobs”, etc? I know several people who are highly skilled and have been looking for work for a long time.

[throwawa14223]

So stop diluting our power against the owners.

[oofta-boofta]

Don't bother. I knew this guy from Solo and to say he's a company simp is putting it mildly.

[richwater]

Raise wages. Don't import cheap labor.

[Sodman]

Why not both? They don't have to be mutually exclusive!

For example - I'd be in favor of abolishing the current H1-B lottery in favor of taking in the first 85,000* applicants with the highest paying job offers. Maybe have some carve-outs based on sector, weighted by demand, so eg academics aren't competing with SV-tech salaries. Not a perfect solution, but solves a lot of the major problems we have today.

*I also think we should increase the cap

[SV_BubbleTime]

Does this confuse the topic a bit?

I have two tech jobs available, but can not hire H1B, and even if I could, it wouldn’t know how.

Shouldn’t we consider how many of the tech jobs available that H1B holders could fill?