I think you might be overlooking the intelligence of your average server or bartender. I know people who are literally geniuses and decided to pursue liberal ar

I think you might be overlooking the intelligence of your average server or bartender. I know people who are literally geniuses and decided to pursue liberal arts majors and masters only to find themselves 10 years later earning $2 above minimum wage working at a used bookstore. Another friend dropped out of a masters in statistics with overwhelming student debt to work as a picker at an Amazon warehouse (years later he's now an operations analyst of some sort). Take these people and train them, along with the McDonald's dropouts and years later you will have former burger-flippers ready to fill a variety of average coder slots along with the punk geniuses working on new compiler designs. Sure, this isn't a magic solution where we all learn and make 100k/year and fix all labour shortages. We need immigration, no doubt. But don't we need it for all careers, if not for the companies, then for what we want the American experience to be for newcomers?