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The only way the US can maintain its high standard of living is through immigration of the best from other countries. The Chinese government is investing heavil
by petilon 9y ago
The only way the US can maintain its high standard of living is through immigration of the best from other countries. The Chinese government is investing heavily in artificial intelligence. (See https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609038/chinas-ai-awakening/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609038/chinas-ai-awakenin... ) Whichever country wins the AI race will become the new superpower. If the top Chinese engineers can be persuaded to immigrate to the US then we can win this race. If not we will lose economically and militarily to China.
When companies like Disney use H-1B to replace American workers with cheaper immigrant workers that's a problem. This is a misuse of H-1B and it needs to stop. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater!
- solidsnack9000 9y agoThis implies that other nations must necessarily have a lower standard of living, while the US is importing their people. Few countries import graduate researchers on the scale that the US does -- and China, notably, does not, even though it seems like a credible threat in your eyes. Something is wrong with the US if it can't foster domestic talent to an appropriate degree so as to remain competitive. In the long run, the US will not have a standard of living so much higher than that of other nations. A lot of that lead is a direct consequence of the outcome of the second world war, and a lot of the rest is due to inheriting British institutions -- the legal system, and broad respect for rule of law -- at a time when few of the governments around today were even formed.