[fleitz]

Hiring the cheapest programmers available generally doesn't work out well, especially if they are cheap and experienced.

Holding your nose up high and refusing to work for the prevailing wage generally doesn't work well, get a job, do something awesome for low pay, leverage that into something that pays well.

While most people were paying thousands of dollars a year going to school I was getting paid to learn tech working a shitty tech support job. While most of my colleagues were graduating, I was buying my first house at 22. (Yes, as tech support pay grade, no startup millions). Before tech support I was working at a warehouse stacking boxes and doing other day labour.

Don't complain about H1Bs work harder, faster, and smarter than them. An H1B is no different than any other motivated competitor.

[mhurron]

> Hiring the cheapest programmers available generally doesn't work out well, especially if they are cheap and experienced.

It works out just fine on quarterly earnings reports so it works out just fine.