| Let's say someone comes over to start a start-up. Who exactly are they going to hire? The competition is already super tough for getting good help. The talent pool is limited, so this seems rather zero-sum. The kind of people you want already have jobs, so this isn't creating any. And startups are uncertain enough without adding that the CEO is here on a temporary visa. It's going to be even tougher to hire people. I can see it as a nice thing to do on an individual level (so people with dreams who just weren't born here get a better shot at them), but is there a compelling case outside of that? The majority of startups and small businesses are completely expendable and interchangeable as far as society is concerned; "Most small businesses exist to provide the owner's family with an upper-middle-class lifestyle." http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dgdgw/single_vs... I know it's great for an individual to have a successful Facebook game, but why should society care? |