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IMO let's just let in all skilled workers as permanent residents in a quick process. Brain drain our geopolitical foes by just being a better place to live and
by wilg 3y ago
IMO let's just let in all skilled workers as permanent residents in a quick process. Brain drain our geopolitical foes by just being a better place to live and work. After that, extend it to everybody else who wants to immigrate. Put a few guardrails on it for criminal records and ensuring they have a place to live and work and whatever else. But let's just let everyone who wants to work in the US and can find a job do it.
- dopidopHN 3y agoI’ve been brain drained. Made some money. Looking for going back home in a few years max. Maybe sooner. The US is weird, I don’t want my kids to be American. Don’t get me wrong y’all are nice and I like you. I have a good time here. But your country is not that confortable. Weird city built around cars. Scary stuff. Nature is still great but rural town are depressing and built around a highway. This feeling is often shared across my fellow qualified migrant friends from various places. The one who are adamant about staying have a very broken country of origin.
- RoyalHenOil 3y agoI grew up in the US and have American citizenship. My partner is not American, but he has an in-demand skillset and has numerous standing job offers in the US that pay much higher than any job he could get in his home country. Yet when we became a couple, we opted to settle in his country, not mine. My quality of life improved when I moved away. The US is a lovely place to visit. We go as often as we can. But it's not a good place to raise a family and grow old.
- dopidopHN 3y agoYeah. Having kids and growing old in the US is terrifying. Seriously. That justify the insane salary difference alone. The amount you absolutely have to stash away to guarantee your own future safety is impressive.
- samstave 3y agoNot to mention that the US economy is effectively wholly built upon Urban-Hell-Sprawl Commercial Expansion that only pushes consumerism. If you drive through any city in the US, as compared to major modern cities around the world, while all cities have their problems, US cities and towns are downright ghetto very large fast-food plastic chain stores. Social services are a joke, politicians are a joke, transportation is a joke, etc.
- rapsey 3y ago> The one who are adamant about staying have a very broken country of origin. Unfortunately that is most of the world.
- djoletina 3y agoMost of the world is broken when compared to the US?
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoMost of the world isn't US, EU, Canada, Australia, New Zeeland, Singapore, Korea, Japan. Life is very difficult outside those areas right now. Most people who complain about vocally about life in the US tend to be financially stable expats from western Europe or equally developed nation, not India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, etc.
- dopidopHN 3y agoI had this conversation with Indian citizen a lot . My very limited experience is that the sex and the marital status will lead the decision. Also; not being able to be dual citizenship is harsh.
- raverbashing 3y agoWell, "not able" is correct but it seems there's a workaround by being a person of Indian origin, no?
- rapsey 3y agoIn terms of population centers yes? South America, Africa, Asia (at least 90% of it if you're generous).
- dopidopHN 3y agoAre India and China and Nigeria broken ? ( I don’t have the answer , but I believe those 3 alone are “most of the world” )
- wilg 3y agoGreat, people leaving should be a good incentive to make the US more appealing to people we want here doing stuff!
- dopidopHN 3y agoNot sure the signal is strong enough.
- rasz 3y agoThats what Korea did to US in nineties when building their own semi industry :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZ-tZTy1Dg&t=487s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZ-tZTy1Dg&t=487s The three companies set up R&D centers in the United States. There, they aggressively recruited American-trained Korean talents with Korean nationalism and insanely high salaries. In some cases, semiconductor engineers were paid salaries over three times as high as Chairman Lee's. Goldstar and Hyundai did the same too. Collectively, the three companies invested a billion USD into their American efforts to acquire modern technology, train their staff, and coordinate with potential partners.
- SenAnder 3y agoYour example explicitly uses ethno-nationalism to benefit its country, focusing on bringing back ethnically Korean engineers, while the GPs proposal entirely ignores nationality and ethnicity. Given that TSMC's founder was a Taiwanese immigrant educated and trained in the US, we can take a good guess at how the GPs proposal would turn out.
- nine_k 3y agoOn one hand, the US have been built by immigrants, and I'm in favor of letting in more and more. On the other hand, unlike in 19th century, now Asia might offer, say, 50-70M willing skilled workers and people with advanced degrees in technology. Such an influx would be very noticeable, to say the least, in many areas of daily life. Such changes should not be approached too lightly.
- konschubert 3y agoIt would probably be f**g awesome, but should be spread out over a few years.
- nine_k 3y agoDecades, most likely. With that, the length it currently takes for an Indian national to obtain a green card is ridiculous.
- markus_zhang 3y agoSkilled workers in your country (US) probably don't like this and will make a lot of noises. Think doctors.
- remarkEon 3y agoNo. Every time I see this sentiment, all I hear is that people genuinely think a nation is just an amorphous blob of biological entities all interchangeably conducting “economic activity”. If there aren’t enough people here who can do the work, or there are but they don’t want to because of pay or something else, we should address those actual problems. The other thing that I attach to sentiments like yours is that higher education in the United States is a completely fraudulent industry. It utterly fails at educating and preparing its own people for the kinds of jobs we need done in the 21st century, and yet the solution somehow is to bring other people in to attend those same schools and universities. The United States is not just an economic zone that functions as a means to an end. Imagining that turning it into one is actually good is a deeply misguided approach to solving a very real problem.
- huhtenberg 3y agoThat "let's" won't go far with local unions in the picture. https://archive.is/lpQpv https://archive.is/lpQpv : Unions object to plans by TSMC to bring workers from Taiwan to speed up work on new facilities. And that's for temp workers.
- Transpire7487 3y agoAmerica has failed to keep up housing construction with population growth for a long time now so if your “guardrails” requires places for people to live you’ve already lost.