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Work visa programs shouldn't exist. They undercut supply and demand. i.e. If there is a demand but a low supply, then the price should go up. Here there is a demand for workers and, according to Big Tech, an "insufficient supply" so they should be raising wages to compete for the available talent. Importing "talent" artificially increases supply and thus suppresses wages.

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Maybe instead of killing "work visa programs" we can kill "low wages" for foreign workers?

Here is a better solution: the countries foreign workers are coming from should do a better job of retaining them. When countries lose their talent, they are brain-drained and this stunts the growth of their own tech-sectors. Ideally, foreign workers won't want to leave their own countries because they should have high-wages and good opportunities at home.

So, to solve working immigration issue one country should somehow force foreign countries to retain outside immigration by proposing better job to workers?

How one country can do it?

> How one country can do it?

It is not one countries responsibility, it is every countries responsibility to retain their own talent and grow their own tech-sector.

And how to force country to do it? If, for example, country don't have resources to do itself?

> And how to force country to do it?

You cannot force a country to do anything. They have to want to do it.

> If, for example, country don't have resources to do itself?

That's a difficult question without a simple answer. Ideally, countries would build themselves up, acquiring the resources to have their own industries.

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