People very much want social prestige, about as much as salary. A profession associated with a high percentage of foreigners with strange accents and low cultur

People very much want social prestige, about as much as salary. A profession associated with a high percentage of foreigners with strange accents and low cultural integration stinks of low prestige. It powerfully discourages entrants. This unending elite driven media drumbeat for high skilled immigration creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. The message to a talented young person is clear: to work in tech is to be regarded as a disposable commodity where you'll be lumped together with strange foreigners. If you want to work with people like yourself who you'll have nice dinners and drinks with, better shoot for something people with accents can't easily do, like management consulting.