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Tech companies are unhappy that technologists are treated like medical doctors: The US limits the supply. This has the side effect of raising wages for both p

• rayiner 14y ago
  > Tech companies are unhappy that technologists are treated like medical doctors: The US limits the supply. The U.S. does not limit the supply of technologists. Industry has pushed for literally a century to flood the market with engineers educated on the public dime (many land-grant public universities were founded with the primary purpose of producing engineers to support the industrial revolution). The public spends huge amounts of money every year subsidizing the training of the engineers who work at these companies.
  • jpdoctor 14y ago
    > The U.S. does not limit the supply of technologists. It's what the MZ article is about: They can't find enough, they want to change H1B's. You can choose to call that something other than a limitation, but it doesn't change the fact that it limits the supply of technologists.
    • rayiner 14y ago
      Tech companies not being able to find enough workers at the wages they are paying does not mean the government is limiting the supply. Indeed, the government has for the last century been propping up the supply of engineers through its support for public universities. That's exactly what University of Washington, Penn State, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, etc, are--attempts by the government to prop up the supply of engineers.