As someone who has worked on H1b in US, I can understand what you are saying. Primary reason an H1b with a net hourly rate same as a US citizen is more attract

As someone who has worked on H1b in US, I can understand what you are saying. Primary reason an H1b with a net hourly rate same as a US citizen is more attractive to hire, is because the costs of firing that employee are too low. Unlike a citizen, especially if the citizen is older. With the suggestion made in the Bloomberg article, it’d have probably been a positive outcome for you if H1b was distributed by way of highest salary first, instead of lottery (which I think didn’t exist during the dot com boom).