Forest isn't money so much as skills. Which is something that private markets aren't terribly good at providing. While I agree with Doug in principle, the whole idea of a skills shortage in high tech is basically a myth. This can be seen in the low hiring rates and mild rates of increase in wages in the industry.
Age discrimination is rampant in the industry.
The skills issue is a red herring. Any competent veteran programmer can pick up a new programming language in a couple of weeks on the job. The number of visas granted has been rising 10 times faster than the growth rate in jobs. In other words, one more capitalist panic all shot to hell. In the early 80s it was 20,000 different word processor programs.