You lost me at this point. Many more qualified less pliable candidates exist but neither are the reason for their hiring.
In general the most qualified person rarely gets the position. The easiest to bend is usually what power seeks.
"Power" also seeks competence. There's no one aspect that is sought is enough to to drown out all the others when hiring, at least not without an outside force requiring it.
Do employers want employees that are easy to deal with? Obviously. Is that more important then skill and ability? It depends not only on the employer, but also probably the job being hired for, but nobody wants to hire an unqualified candidate over a qualified one.
Part of being a Marxist (parent comment) or an anti-immigrationist (grandparent comment) is that you're required to believe any statement anyone makes that has the right words in it. Even though you have no evidence for them.
People are not damand, I have no idea what that even means in the relevant context.
The number of job openings isn't constant over longer than like a day. What you're doing here is called partial equilibrium analysis.
> People are not damand, I have no idea what that even means in the relevant context.
That you missed econ 201?
People are demand because they buy things. Employees increase demand for other employees because jobs are created by "comparative advantage", and as long as your company is growing it's not possible to run out of that, although it does grow more specialized.
All I have to go on is 20+ years of employment at Apple, including several years as a H1B and Green Card holder. Can't possibly compete with your sincerely held beliefs.
> Citizens have also more rights and companies love to have these clause that make you get your head down and work no questions asked
This is undoubtedly the case for some H1B employers, but Apple is not a body shop style operation. Firings are extremely rare, H1Bs and citizens work side by side, and I have never seen the former more hesitant to speak up than the latter.
You might want to entertain the thought that Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, or Betrand Serlet were not really hired for their pliability, but because they were genuinely qualified.
> The solution here is to increase and qualify the local workforce
That would definitely be helpful. But the trend seems to go the other way, with it being fashionable for opinion leaders to tell people to forego college, and education becoming more and more of a luxury.
> and at the same time make the bar even higher for those from outside
… forcing companies who prefer to hire the best qualified candidates over those with the "right" passport to shift their development activities elsewhere.