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This, together with the proposed new tax laws for graduate students (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/opinion/house-tax-bill-graduate-students.html https://ww
by shadowtree 9y ago
This, together with the proposed new tax laws for graduate students (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/opinion/house-tax-bill-graduate-students.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/opinion/house-tax-bill-gr...), will slowly erode the status of the US in tech and science.
Which is fine if you follow history and just accept the rise and fall of empires.
There aren't enough CS grads in the US to fill the demand as education is so crazy expensive. Foreigners have skewed the system since forever, see all the 1st generation founders.
The constant feed of well-educated foreigners to the US is coming to an end. Someone else will collect that talent. Whoever that is will dominate. Tencent passing FB in market value should be a big clue where we're heading.
- pkaye 9y agoOnly now we will start draining engineers worth atleast $90K from other countries. In SV $90K can be considered a starting salary.
- 2_listerine_pls 9y agoThey will be the same engineers.
- tedmiston 9y ago> There aren't enough CS grads in the US to fill the demand as education is so crazy expensive. There aren't enough CS grads sure, but I don't think the price of education is the reason. A CS degree costs the same as any other bachelor's and there are plenty of grads with business or liberal arts degrees. A much bigger factor I think is that CS, engineering, the sciences, etc are hard, challenging fields.