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The US is Only a Leader in Tech Because of Foreign Workers

posted by martyb on Friday November 30 2018, @09:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the Quite-a-few-from-Europe-and-China,-too dept.

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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In 1965, the Immigration Act of 1924 was repealed, opening the gates to immigrants and allowing a critical mass of technology companies to develop in clusters around Boston and Santa Clara County.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, @02:59PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @02:59PM (#768284)

    I think you should refer to the people you call leftists/liberals as the DNC instead.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Friday November 30 2018, @05:16PM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Friday November 30 2018, @05:16PM (#768356) Journal

    The terms "left" and "right" barely make any sense in America where we basically have the pro-abortion-warmongering-corporate-sellouts and the anti-abortion-warmongering-corporate-sellouts.

    There's plenty of rhetoric to be sure but nothing ever really changes -- as an example, there's a caged migrant child photo used to criticize Trump that was taken during the Obama administration. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-28/caged-migrant-children-photo-goes-viral-left-rages-trump-except-it-happened-under [zerohedge.com]

    What is plain about American politics to me, is that the DNC and GOP don't really care about policy (see the entirety of Obama's term which looked like what one might expect a GWB term 3 & 4 to look like) -- they only care about inflaming their base and proving to independents that that the other guy is worse. What a shit show.