What about increasing immigration to the US across the board, especially low-skill migrants and high-skill migrants outside the tech sector? Development economist Lant Pritchett has written (in 2017 and in 2023) that migration restrictions incentivize the creation of more labor-saving technologies than would be necessary in a fully open world:
There is no global scarcity of people who would like to be long-haul truck drivers in the United States, where the median wage for such work is $23 per hour. In the developing world, truck drivers make around $4 per hour. Yet firms cannot recruit workers from abroad even at the higher wage because of restrictions on immigration, so business leaders in the United States are impelled to choose machines over people and eradicate jobs through the use of technology. (“People Over Robots”, 2023)
What about increasing immigration to the US across the board, especially low-skill migrants and high-skill migrants outside the tech sector? Development economist Lant Pritchett has written (in 2017 and in 2023) that migration restrictions incentivize the creation of more labor-saving technologies than would be necessary in a fully open world: