[simons]

> Tech companies always pretend it's impossible to find employees. That's not reality, though. That's a political strategy.

Genuinely interested to hear an expansion of this. How would pretending that technical employees are hard to recruit, benefit a company politically?

[gozur88]

If you can convince the general public the tech industry will wither on the vine for lack of skilled labor, you can get Congress to raise the H-1B cap, allowing you to drive down your labor costs.