All it'll do is replace competent workers who don't have $100k to spare, with incompetent workers who have the money.

beAbU 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

False dichotomy. Why would only incompetent workers have the 100k to spare?

positr0n 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I certainly don't think the industry's hiring processes are perfect, but $100k on top of a normal wage for an incompetent worker is a lot of money to throw down the drain and not either run out of money or have someone competent notice and stop the situation before too long.

	▲	esalman 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Unfortunately, to stop the situation you either need to let competent foreign workers in, or somehow make 2 years of masters education, or 7 years of PhD education more attractive to average Americans than flipping burgers and earning $22 an hour, on top of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars loan to get bachelor's degrees.
	▲	Terretta 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> $100k ... is a lot of money It's still less than a domestic recruiting fee for many types of roles the H1B was purportedly about, roles where it's hard enough to find someone you need a headhunter's help and the pool is still not exactly what you're looking for.

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nsm 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The fees are paid by employers and not workers.

	▲	esalman 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This is still another loophole and the companies which exploit the program and workers (small consulting firms, not big tech per se) are still going to exploit this.
	▲	nojvek 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Without salary enforcement, it does come out of workers eventually. Like Americans paying Tariff fees out of their wallets due to price hikes.