Mr. Aron keeps saying "so get out of IT and do something else". That's the problem - the H1B visa is constructed to create a class of people who can't get out

Mr. Aron keeps saying "so get out of IT and do something else". That's the problem - the H1B visa is constructed to create a class of people who can't get out of IT and do something else. The terms of the visa even make it challenging to stay in IT and merely start working for a different large corporation. I want to make it very clear that I am 100% behind the notion of silicon valley as a desination for entrepreneurs from all over the world. That said, I'm pretty disgusted with a visa that allows Oracle to control an employee's right to reside in the US, or the employee's application for a green card. I think the H1B visa is the visa that says "we'll let you into the US to work for Oracle, but we won't let you into the US to compete with Oracle. Paul G wrote about this in an essay about "how to be silicon valley". If another country created a better worker visa - one that respected the need for personal and economic freedom, it could gain a real competitive advantage over silicon valley. America's idiotic skilled worker program is probably SV's achilles heel. I read an article about how some H1B holders are getting so frustrated with the green card wait that they have started looking to other countries to start businesses - I think it was in businessweek (sorry I can't give a link). I don't think this is enough to knock SV out of the top spot, but it is a place where a competing city in another country could score some points.