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on Friday November 30 2018, @09:47AM
from the Quite-a-few-from-Europe-and-China,-too dept.
from the Quite-a-few-from-Europe-and-China,-too dept.
As a former H1 visa holder, this article interested me and shows the value that immigrants bring to the USA.
According to this opinion piece, the USA and specifically Santa Clara county is only the leader in tech because of immigrants.
In 1965, the Immigration Act of 1924 was repealed, opening the gates to immigrants and allowing a critical mass of technology companies to develop in clusters around Boston and Santa Clara County. A significant proportion of all the best graduates from the best schools in India (IIT) came to the USA -- in effect, the USA siphoned off India's best talent and used it to develop leadership in technology and to grow the economy.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @01:03PM (12 children)
> But you can't fix stupid.
I thought that the whole point of TFA was that you can, by importing smart people.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @01:20PM (11 children)
The imported smart people can't vote. It takes many years. And during that time the local stupid people vote.
Furthermore, each imported smart person supports a dozen local less-than-smart people, but the local less-than-smart people tend to say "fucking immigrants, taking our jubs"
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @02:11PM (10 children)
There it is -- the exact sort of arrogant, dismissive, uncaring attitude that explains why Trump won. Perhaps people aren't as stupid as you think and when you come at them on your high horse, they might just take some satisfaction in bringing you down a notch or two, especially when the facts are clear that companies use immigrant labor to force wages down and rake in ever increasing profit for those at the apex of the corporate pyramid.
Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Is Using H-1B Visas To Pay Low Wages To Immigrants [huffingtonpost.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @03:35PM (1 child)
That's how capitalism works. Why do you hate capitalism?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @04:30PM
If I've learned anything from reddit, it is that capitalism sucks, is responsible for 600million annual deaths and is responsible for the destruction of the planet and all societal ills. And that socialism rules. Well, maybe not yet, but it will and we'll all be living in a ecotopia.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday November 30 2018, @06:10PM (6 children)
There it is -- the exact sort of arrogant, dismissive, uncaring attitude that explains why Trump won.
Yeah, 'cause there's no arrogant, dismissive, uncaring attitudes amongst the Trump supporters. I love how it's only the liberals who are supposed to be super polite all the time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @06:20PM
>I love how it's only the liberals who are supposed to be super polite all the time.
HAHAHAHA firmly in dimension B.
(Score: 2, Redundant) by hemocyanin on Friday November 30 2018, @09:32PM (3 children)
Right, because Democrats are super-polite [to suburban upper-middle to upper class white collar workers, especially women]. Everyone else? They "cling" or they're "deplorable".
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @10:13PM (2 children)
WOOOOOOOOOSH
No one said Democrats aren't rude, just that the GOP is pretty unique for treating people like shit then immediately turning around and saying "but let's be civil"
It is one of their most popular "tactics" and it works because they've riled up their base into a frenzy of hatred. The DNC started ramping up the hate rhetoric after 2016 but it is still primarily a GOP tactic to do one thing and then cry like spoiled children when people do it back to them.
#getaclue #criticalthinking #payingattention
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 01 2018, @12:56AM
#partisanRetard
Go back to your pantifa group.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday December 01 2018, @04:02PM
We've always been at war with Eastasia!
Back at you.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by crafoo on Saturday December 01 2018, @12:08AM
No, not nearly as much. Mostly just exasperation and a weariness of being talked down to by arrogant, uniformed "educated elite". What's amusing to me is the regressive leftists I've met maintain the arrogant attitude but have open disdain for methods of rational thought and the scientific method (if they can even intelligently explain it, usually not). Blue collar people are simply tired of it. They generally recognize the unearned superior attitude. They recognize these people are attempting to control what they are allowed to say and even what/how they can think.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 02 2018, @01:07AM
Perhaps in reality, which has a well-known liberal bias, they are. Evidence, this post and Trump. That's two evidences. Those, and soybean prices, and futures. That's four (4) evidences!