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> the idea that we should make green cards more easily available to foreign-born STEM graduates. Why, just so companies can have cheaper wages? What benefit d
by balls187 3y ago
> the idea that we should make green cards more easily available to foreign-born STEM graduates.
Why, just so companies can have cheaper wages?
What benefit does America get by having more foreign born and trained tech workers?
Why not make it easier for police, doctors, nurses, social workers, and teachers instead?
- Mountain_Skies 3y agoIt enables the US to weaken other countries by draining away their intellectual capacity. Think of it as 'Cognitive Imperialism' and then it fits in well with the historical patterns of how the US treats the world.
- rattlesnakedave 3y ago> It enables the US to weaken other countries by draining away their intellectual capacity Are you implying that if they don't emigrate they'll be properly utilized in a way that is a threat to the US's current hegemony? If so, why aren't these countries doing that now?
- dahwolf 3y agoWell, perhaps because they can't afford it?
- konschubert 3y agoSo, why should ppl stay in these countries where they cannot use their skills?
- dahwolf 3y agoWell, that's the entire problem now, isn't it?
- wslh 3y agoThat is how the world works and is working until now. I don't find any surprising effect. Do you?
- charlieyu1 3y agoYou think brain drain won’t happen if US doesn’t do so? It will always happen, people always want to move to more developed countries
- soligern 3y agoIf nothing else then because it works. Immigrants have founded 51% of our top 500 billion+ unicorns. Indian entrepreneurs alone account for 66 out of 500. How many jobs is that creating? Millions at the very least. At 1% of the population, Indian immigrants pay 6% of all taxes. These people also will become/are American citizens. You have to be a hardcore racist and/or an idiot to argue with data that overwhelming.
- balls187 3y agoWorks for whom? You argument is hinged as a defense against anti-immigration. I’m not anti immigration. I am against simply making it easier for software developers to get visa’s, that doesn’t make America any better (than giving visas to non-developers) Creating jobs that only go to skilled tech workers, and/or tech workers who live in tech hubs isn’t much of a benefit to America. Create well paying jobs that any american can do with tradeschool or on the job training—those are jobs we need. Not workers willing to make an internet enabled juice machine. And if you have a great idea, have funding and customers, sure we can give you a visa, but in exchange the US tax payer gets 20% stake.
- asu_thomas 3y ago[flagged]
- soligern 3y agoI didn’t really mention any “inherent” qualities. Just pointed out facts that buttress an argument to increase immigration. The right wing loves to point out cultural discrepancies in minority populations they vilify but apparently pointing out effective culture is anathema. I’m American. India is a country that has been growing at an average rate of 7% for more than two decades and has plenty of billion dollar unicorns and a strong culture of entrepreneurship. It’s the 3rd largest economy in the world by PPP, it just takes a couple of decades to recover from two centuries of outright looting.
- asu_thomas 3y ago
- konschubert 3y agoBecause taking in talented people from all over the world will make your country extremely strong and rich. Talented, highly educated people are a huge net-positive on the economy and everybody else profits from that.