While I live in India and negative actions on H1B will undoubtedly affect my country, I've struggled to understand how American citizens have tolerated the gami

While I live in India and negative actions on H1B will undoubtedly affect my country, I've struggled to understand how American citizens have tolerated the gaming of H1B for so long. Since H1B is supposed to be for hiring people with skills in short supply in the US, a reasonable solution would be to award the visas in descending order of pay on the philosophy that a market should value skills in short supply more. A lottery based system in contrast seems to be designed to be gamed by whichever company can stuff applications.