Freedom & Innovation in the Tech fields.

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I hear the Chamber of Commerce is now pushing to allow the market to establish the H-IB Visas. They felt it was the best way to allow for freedom and innovation. So, here's one for all of you who have worked in the field. What did you experience in your jobs which you felt suffocated the creative process? Or the innovative process?

I'm just wondering, if we were once known for "American Ingenuity," what brought that era to an end? Was it just the money aspect?

[HillbillyBob]

1. Greed

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5. Seems like the only weapon we have against the greedy is satire.

[One_Life_To_Give]

2. Management

One idiot with an MBA can do more to screw up High Tech than a hundred engineers could conceive of.

With an honorable mention to management by Short Term objectives. i.e. Stock Price. Instead of focusing on Multi-Year/decade goal achievement. "Your company makes lots of money every year. But what we need is excitement!" - Wall Street to an International Fortune 500 CEO.

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4. I wonder why nobody has thought to write a book about how we lost

the war in the Tech Industry?

[One_Life_To_Give]

6. Lots of Dilbert books

Scary but much of what Adams writes has alot of truth to it.

[Jim__]

3. Yes. To allow freedom, innovation and slave wages.

You'll still be free to turn doen the slave wages, so clearly this is an improvement over the current system where innovative corporations are forced to pay some minimum wage.