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Give me your energetic, your rich, Your striding elite yearning to oppress, The vaunted gild of your desolate shore. Send these, the landowners, first-class-tur
by 9999 15y ago
Give me your energetic, your rich,
Your striding elite yearning to oppress,
The vaunted gild of your desolate shore.
Send these, the landowners, first-class-turbulence-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the door for those with gold!
- pjscott 15y agoWhat would you prefer?
- nobody314159 15y agoNew science, engineering, medical graduates who have just finished a US degree/masters/PhD?
- mbreese 15y agoI'm pretty sure that they can (or will) buy a house... Maybe not on the coasts, but as a grad student, I could buy a house in Indiana.
- pjscott 15y agoThe proposed law specifies that the house must cost at least $500,000. This is way outside the price range of most grad students, unfortunately.
- sliverstorm 15y agoWell, not the ones planning to go home. But perhaps a more welcoming route to becoming a citizen would help keep some of the ones leaving upon completing their degree.
- hugh3 15y agoThe only thing that bothers me about this proposal is that it might attract too many people doing PhDs for the wrong reason. And people doing PhDs for the wrong reason usually wind up doing bad research.
- msg 15y agopeople doing PhDs usually wind up doing bad research FTFY Seriously though, limiting it to STEM majors would goose academia in the right direction.
- impendia 15y ago> Seriously though, limiting it to STEM majors would goose academia in the right direction. What is this supposed to mean?! If you don't know, humanities programs are being badly squeezed already. Some programs are being cut entirely. I have a friend who is earning her Ph.D. in comp lit, and she (with all of her colleagues) are seriously scared that her field will no longer exist in 20 years. And all this, despite the fact that undergraduate courses in the humanities are, according to my friend, as popular as ever.
- nobody314159 15y agoMany jobs require a degree. Those jobs that only require you to wear a suit don't care what the degree is in. Now if your future job only depends on your grade - not the subject which would you choose? Studying maths/physics/etc for 4years or doing psychology/media studies/american studies.
- impendia 15y agoI don't know anybody that took nothing other than math classes for four years of undergrad... and I majored in math, and subsequently went to grad school in it.
- hugh3 15y agoI took only maths and physics classes for my final three years of undergrad. In first year, I also took chemistry and computer science. No, I didn't go to uni in the US.
- potatolicious 15y ago
- pjscott 15y agoI agree with you adamantly, but the two aren't mutually exclusive.
- 9999 15y agoI would certainly prefer this.
- temphn 15y agoAmerica is broke. If you want to tax the rich you need to let them into the country. And people buying a house aren't that rich anyway. Besides, this is very similar to the immigration policy of Canada or Singapore, which also give points if you buy property and start a business in the country. Their economies are vastly outperforming ours and it might be worth emulating them.
- OstiaAntica 15y agoEven with the current slowdown, U.S. per capita GDP is much higher than Canada's. Singapore, as an island city-state, isn't really comparable to the U.S. It is more like Manhattan, and the government in Singapore can implement fairly heavy-handed policies that are not feasible on a continental US-scale.
- yummyfajitas 15y agoAlthough Singapore is outperforming our economy (on a per-capita basis), Canada is not. Why do you believe emulating them will get us Singapore-like benefits rather than Canada-like harms? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...
- temphn 15y agoyummy: good question, and let me preface by saying I'm generally sympathetic to your worldview. I think the answer is that this policy is pretty much directly guaranteed to increase the human capital and GDP-per-capita of the receiving country. Canada does plenty of other stuff badly, but if you've seen the latest Heritage ranking they actually exceed the US in economic freedom for the first time ever. With the exception of an enlightened, merit-based immigration policy Canada isn't doing many things right...but it is doing far less that is grievously wrong than the US. I'd take even odds that once the pending true economic collapse happens (including devaluation of the dollar, tuition bubble pop, Euro breakup, et alia), that Canada will have a higher GDP-per-capita than the US within 5 years and certainly within 10. But this takes us far afield.
- pyre 15y ago