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Yup. That aligns with the intention of the visa too: getting highly skilled workers. And compensation is the most objective measure of that.

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H1B is not exclusive for software engineering and encompasses many other professions (architects, civil engineers, etc).

Immigration policy is not aimed to serve the highly compensated field of the day, but to serve society at large.

Society needs civil engineers or child psychologists just as much as a fintech developer.

> H1B is not exclusive for software engineering and encompasses many other professions (architects, civil engineers, etc)

Then partition the auctions by profession.

Yes, I agree that compensation alone is not enough.

We'll end up fighting which professions deserve H1Bs.

It’s worth fighting for.

Remember that thr claim is that you can't find American labor with the right skills. There are no architects here? No psychologists?

The only believable claims I've seen has been needing people who can translate unusual languages.

I’m not sure. I would imagine there is as much variety and diversity in those fields as there is in computer science.

If that is the case, I can see why immigration might be necessary to make up for a domestic deficit.

Excess of both

> Immigration policy is not aimed to serve the highly compensated field of the day, but to serve society at large.

Do you believe that description is consistent with the design and impact of the H1B visa?

Nothing about the auction is incompatible with that. If we don't have enough civil engineers this can be addressed by paying them more. What we're willing to pay is the ultimate measure, and really the only measure that matters-- of the supply/demand equation.

If society really needed them it would find a way to pay for them.

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