Option 1: you give a visa to a quant with 2M/y today’s salary Option 2: you give a visa to a PhD to work for 150k/year in a small biopharma startup that thinks

Option 1: you give a visa to a quant with 2M/y today’s salary Option 2: you give a visa to a PhD to work for 150k/year in a small biopharma startup that thinks it has the solution to cancer. This salary stacked ranking optimizes for today’s worth of work. Not its potential.