The valley and SF need to build more, but eventually we need to accept that many talented technology workers will neither wish to nor be able to live in a small

The valley and SF need to build more, but eventually we need to accept that many talented technology workers will neither wish to nor be able to live in a small peninsula in central northern California. High tech companies will change then they need to change. If they find that they are not able to access a high quality workforce in the numbers they need unless they allow their workforce to live in other areas, and they lose out to competitors who do allow this, they will change. I've been beating a drum here on HN, and I know that people are probably getting tired of hearing about it, but here it goes again... we must not allow employers to control the residency and work rights of their employees. All workers, technology and otherwise, immigrant or born in the US, must be free to pursue their educational path, career path, and place of employment according to market signals and their own personal interests and abilities. Anything else, at scale, will produce harmful market distortions and is an affront to personal freedom. If employees who have the right to make this choice are not choosing to subject themselves to brutal housing costs in spite of salaries that silicon valley employers insist are at shortage-indicating highs, that's the market's answer. We should welcome immigrants, but we should not welcome Facebook's control over an immigrant's right to decide what to study, where to work, or what profession to choose as a condition of coming to the united states. As long as corporations have this coercive power over individuals on a large scale, expect nothing to change. Remarkably, the corporations who lobby for this sort of massive personal power over technical workers often wear the halo of being "pro-immigrant". "You may live and work in the United States provided that you take the technical interview exams I insist you take, study the fields I insist you study, live in the high cost region I insist you live in, work on the projects I insist you work on, for the salary I've decided is fair". Why do they get away with this?