The H1b program was really intended for things like "man, we can't get any doctors to work in town x, guess we'll use h1b". Tech has twisted it way beyond that.
That said, I think US tech works benefit a ton from a world where the US is the center of R&D, many of the best R&D jobs are in the US, and every tech company in the world that's doing something interesting has a pretty good shot of at least having a site in the US.
The US as a country benefits from having all of the world brain drain to here.
Can we figure out a system that's not the broken H1b mess and make that happen?
That said, I think US tech works benefit a ton from a world where the US is the center of R&D, many of the best R&D jobs are in the US, and every tech company in the world that's doing something interesting has a pretty good shot of at least having a site in the US.
The US as a country benefits from having all of the world brain drain to here.
Can we figure out a system that's not the broken H1b mess and make that happen?