Isn't price the signal the market uses to tell what is more valuable? If another company is offering more for their candidate than your startup, then that means

Isn't price the signal the market uses to tell what is more valuable? If another company is offering more for their candidate than your startup, then that means the other candidate has more value to the countries economy. If you aren't going by price and are going to pick by some nebulous value, like innovation, when it comes to visas then the government is going to be picking and choosing winners. I'm playing devil's advocate here a bit as I am not against government intervention, but it's a question that needs to be asked and answered