Imagine, if you will, that there was a law saying that we could only grow 7,500 androids per year, and then only to do jobs we couldn't do with humans. Then co

Imagine, if you will, that there was a law saying that we could only grow 7,500 androids per year, and then only to do jobs we couldn't do with humans. Then companies play games and replace existing teams with androids, using up 7,000 of the available slots. The net result would be a shortage of androids for one-way space exploration and the other original intended purposes. This is the situation today. We have a rapidly growing need for software engineers in startups, and some people say that we need more visas for companies that are actually creating new jobs and growing our economy. But it's very hard for startups to get H1Bs when companies abuse the program for replacing existing workers. I'm not saying that companies shouldn't be able to replace existing workers with immigrants, but if that's what we want, we should say so and loosen immigration policies in general. As it stands, this behaviour is essentially Disney stealing slots from startups.