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It would be far from useless for your employer for you to take less money, but fair enough. Growing the labor pool is far from good when the goal is what passes for leadership in the valley -- pmarca, zuckerberg, larry page, et all -- are really advocating: avoid investing in education, or growing the workforce domestically, in favor of importing cheap foreign-educated labor which can then be exploited via our pseudo-indentured servitude h1b system. Most of these folks already let their ethics show w/ their engineering wage cram-down, along with their tax avoidance schemes which reduce funds to the government which heavily subsidizes their industries via, for example, public support of education of the skilled employees. There are plenty of good engineers available in the US. You can do any of: hire remote employees pay better so that people can afford to live in the valley without making huge financial sacrifices, or use your leadership role to attack any of the things (transport, nimby, lack of housing, lack of dense housing) that make living in the valley so expensive foster an engineering pipeline and work culture that doesn't systematically exclude women (double your potential employee base alone), plus other minorities But since they make none of these changes, I oppose any increase in visa allotments. |