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Re: H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home

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Post by midoridensha » Mon, Aug 29, 2022, 1:24 AM UTC

slt2021 wrote: post #457

diogenescynic wrote: post #192

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Pay them more if they are so vital then. Or would the business really rather just go out of business instead of raising wages? And if the business can't operate without raising wages, maybe it's not a sustainable business anyways.

should we refuse visas to scientist, PhDs and postdocs in favor of some offshore worker who moves JSONs and protofuls between frontend and backend?

Yes, absolutely. Scientists are paid a pittance, so they're clearly not valuable to American society, and they should be kept out. America doesn't value science much anyway; just look at how many Americans don't believe in vaccines.

Re: H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home

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Post by midoridensha » Mon, Aug 29, 2022, 1:26 AM UTC

ALittleLight wrote: post #226

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What do Canada, and I, owe my home country? Arguing I should stay there because I was born there is not even just nativism, it implies countries own their citizens as property. This idea would set the whole world back. If they wanted me to stay, they could have tried harder to create a nice environment for smart people there.

This is simply an improved version of colonization - rich countries extracting resources from the poor. Only now, the rich countries don't have to bother with the maintenance of the poor countries - they just drain the valuable citizens and leave the rest. As to what you, or Canada, owe your home country - this is a nonsense question. Either there are moral obligations between people or there aren't. If there are, th…

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Re: H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home

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Post by midoridensha » Tue, Aug 30, 2022, 12:43 AM UTC

petilon wrote: post #87

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I think there are several countries, across North and Western Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, perhaps Singapore and Hong Kong, that could compete with the US for "standard of living". These countries don't have similar immigration policies or histories compared to the US. If you think of a person who builds a unicorn as a national level resource, which makes sense because they create jobs, capabilities, and w…

Australia takes in twice as many immigrants per year, compared to the US, as a percentage of their population. Canada almost 4 times as many. Singapore, New Zealand and Hong Kong too take in more immigrants than the US.

>Singapore, New Zealand and Hong Kong too take in more immigrants than the US.

Is this still true for Hong Kong after the recent Chinese crackdown? The stuff I've read says HK lost a significant number of people who fled after that.

Re: H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home

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Post by midoridensha » Tue, Aug 30, 2022, 12:47 AM UTC

2143 wrote: post #340

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> In the long term, does it make a difference in US if it doesn't bring talent across the world? Of course, it does! The only reason the standard of living in the US is higher than anywhere else in the world is because the US makes stuff the rest of the world covets. America is the leading economy in the world today not because it has the most number of people, but because it has the best and the brightest, gathered…

> The only reason the standard of living in the US is higher than anywhere else in the world That's not true. Places like Sweden, Luxembourg, Switzerland etc have higher standards of living. US isn't by no means bad when it comes to standard of living, but it definitely isn't "higher than anywhere else in the world".

>US isn't by no means bad when it comes to standard of living, but it definitely isn't "higher than anywhere else in the world".

It depends on how you measure "standard of living", as it's actually pretty subjective.

In short, if you're a billionaire, you'll probably get the highest standard of living in America, living in a massive private compound somewhere. You'll have access to whatever food you want, the best medical care, etc. And if you're not a billionaire, you don't matter in America; only the opinions of billionaires matter there.

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Post by zht » Tue, Sep 06, 2022, 4:37 PM UTC

govg wrote: post #428

zht wrote: post #65

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sorry in what way has India's digital payments space leapfrogged China's? Do you know what WeChat/Alipay are?

Do you know what UPI is?

yes? in what way is UPI leap frogging the ubiquity of wechat/alipay?

p2p, b2b payments go through WeChat. it all goes through WeChat.

people selling food on the street, basically all retail stores, e-commerce, goes through some combination of wechat/alipay