If you paid $20k more, you would have the more talented locals applying.

India, China, both home to a billion people.

Mathematically if we collected all the brightest people from both these nations, say the top 5 percent of their population thats 100 million people in that pool to pick from.

The entire population of the US is 350million.

Comp sci went from something people did cause they enjoyed to something they did cause they thought it was a pay day: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ocpf0g/oc_...

We ran out of talented, passionate people a long time ago.

There is also a cultural problem in America, one that buisness and staff are afflicted with.

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/no-inventions-no-inno...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At3256ASxlA (pay attention to Noyce in Japan and the article he wrote... think about intel today, compare it to the above article).

I don't think Noyce's take as a business owner is far removed from the above take from the prospective of staff.

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deadbabe 3 days ago | parent [-]

So you’re going to pay an extra $100k a year per foreign national just to hire them when a domestic employee would be cheaper and pretty much the same.

	▲	zer00eyz a day ago \| parent [-]
		> and pretty much the same The top 5 percent of India and China is a pool of 200 millon people. The top 5 percent of the US is a pool of 17 millon people. If your looking for talent and not looking to other nations your going to come up short.