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10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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Re: 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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broken_clock wrote: post #285
selfmodruntime wrote: post #260

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High-skill immigrants disproportionately found companies (whose very existence implies driving up demand in the labor market), as well as disproportionately induce new consumer demand (high-skill -> high pay -> high consumption), which again drives new companies. Out of America (and the world's) only $1T companies: Brin and Huang are 1st gen immigrants. Nadella is a 1st gen immigrant; he brought Microsoft out of it's…

> Nadella is a 1st gen immigrant; he brought Microsoft out of it's malaise.

I agree with most of what you posted, but not enough credit is given to Ballmer here. He set Microsoft on the trajectory that Nedella followed and got the fuck out of the way. There were a lot of cringe Ballmer moments but he had a profound impact on Microsoft, probably much more so than Nadella so far. And none of this is meant to take anything away from Nadella's competency. Just that Ballmer gets blamed for a whole lot despite setting MSFT up for the success Nadella (and shareholders) enjoy.

Re: 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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Post by tonynator »

AnarchismIsCool wrote: post #335
mensetmanusman wrote: post #217

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Modern civilization has entitlements, if we get rid of entitlements, sure we can have open borders. We just can’t do both or the system collapses.

Why are some societies worse off than others, to the point where someone would need to move countries take their entitlements? Might it have something to do with what the entitled countries did to the ones that are worse off?

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Post by np- »

minicoz wrote: post #310
mensetmanusman wrote: post #214

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Republicans are strongly anti-illegal immigration, and that appears anti-immigration to some.

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Because it’s functionally impossible to deport all “illegals” without massively disrupting legal immigrant communities? How exactly do you propose the illegal immigrant gestapo determine someone is here legally? Race? Accent? Stop every brown person on the street and ask for papers…? What don’t republicans understand by this

Re: 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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Post by tonynator »

_heimdall wrote: post #276
amanaplanacanal wrote: post #232

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The original immigration laws were explicitly racist. They were long before the entitlement programs existed.

I don't know enough about the specific racial factors in our older immigration laws, I'll take your word for it, but there isn't anything linking the two. We could have open borders without entitlement programs or racist immigration laws.

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Re: 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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Post by jimbob45 »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #214
labrador wrote: post #107

I support immigration and oppose the Republican anti-immigrant platform because it seems to me there is significant brain drain from many countries to the U.S. and that contributes to our success. For example, in this article is about white collar crime, it points out that many Somali-Americans were professionals back in Somalia. I'm not concerned about the crime because that seems like a somewhat higher tendency unt…

Republicans are strongly anti-illegal immigration, and that appears anti-immigration to some.

There’s a very interesting question to be answered as to whether more high-quality immigrants come through legal immigration or illegal immigration.

Legal immigration is more likely to bring those you actively desire via quotas. Still illegal immigration has the advantage of raw numbers.

There’s also the question of how many 2nd/3rd generation immigrants go on to become high-quality from each group.

Re: 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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Post by tonynator »

AnarchismIsCool wrote: post #315
tonynator wrote: post #306

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Imagine being a European and not being allowed to defend yourself lol

I'm with you on this, but imagine being an American in prison for 10 years because you drilled a 1/8" hole .123" from the edge of a funny shaped piece of aluminum.

Yeah that is also pretty pathetic, agreed.

Re: 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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Post by fracus »

toast0 wrote: post #14
giancarlostoro wrote: post #6

I wonder what a sensible way forward for Cubans is, and their government. What would it take for the US to lift sanctions (I assume a radical shift within Cuba's government), and for Cuba itself (as a whole) to restructure their government in a way that would benefit them and everyone. Cuba would be a great travel destination. Their cigars aren't as on par anymore as far as I know, but there's potential there, Nicara…

> Cuba would be a great travel destination. It's been a while since I visited places outside the US, but one of the shocking things was travel ads for Cuba everywhere. From what I can tell, US-Cuban relations seem to be at the whim of the US President. Most of the US population doesn't care; most of the rest of the world has fine relations with Cuba, but isn't going to pressure the US. Nobody is sending missiles to C…

I think the major problem with Cuba is their relationship with Russia.
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