Editing Labor Shortages (section)

=== 2020 ===

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|content=[Note: people will ask about what the simplifications are about. They are about automation, singular talents that are quite rare, infant industries, temporary shortages, path dependencies, endowment variation, etc., etc.]
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|content=Both @IngrahamAngle &amp; @realDonaldTrump aren’t getting it here. This isn’t about cheap labor. This isn’t about brain power. This is about US capitalism for labor.

Let me put it in simplistic terms: Americans are walking away from markets because our capitalists hate capitalism.
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|content=God Bless You @IngrahamAngle for Holding Pres. Trump's Feet to the Fire on His Immigration Promises!

Laura expresses the concerns of many America First Conservatives at the WH's plan to import more foreign "high-tech" workers to compete w/ Americans.

"You ran on America First."
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|timestamp=6:25 PM · Jan 11, 2020
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|content=It is time...past time...to have our CEOs howling like little wimps. We need something like a [[Labor Shortages|50 year deep labor shortage with zero “Wage Relief”]]. So what if wages go up a bit? Let them go up more and more and MORE until they take an ENORMOUS chunk out of Capital’s share of GDP.
|timestamp=6:25 PM · Jan 11, 2020
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=What’s the answer to any wage gap for women?

What’s the answer to Millenial family formation?

What’s the answer to discrimination against Seniors and Youth?

What’s the answer to careers after child rearing?

What’s the answer to Minority unemployment?

A: TIGHT LABOR MARKETS.
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|content=I’m going to overdo it so that the point is understandable to everyone: 

When corporations whine about not being able to find smart people to hire, we all win as a society. The goal of making capitalism serve society is to get CEOs to perjure about [[Labor Shortages|non existent labor shortages]].
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|content=Oversimplifying only slightly: The proper job of politicians is to laugh at such corporate CEOs debasing themselves &amp; to ask them about the ratio of their total compensation packages to the compensation packages they are offering: “What happened when you offered 7 or 8 figures??”
|timestamp=6:25 PM · Jan 11, 2020
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|content=This message has been brought to you by the pro-market, pro-freedom, Pre-Clinton, Pre-Identity Politics, and Pre-Batshit crazy Patriotic American Left.
|timestamp=6:25 PM · Jan 11, 2020
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|timestamp=6:31 PM · Jan 11, 2020
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|content=Well, I’ve thought about this. Even published.
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|content=A correct initial point. Wrong (business school friendly type) frame. 

Given not Zero sum: do you think more or less innovation would happen if labor access rights were securitized &amp; traded as in [[Ronald Coase|Coasian theory]] or if they were confiscated and used as seigniorage as they are now?
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|content=It’s not zero sum. 

Do you think wages (and innovation and profits) would be higher or lower if fewer of the very smartest people came to Silicon Valley from the rest of the world?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-ring_theory_of_economic_development
|timestamp=6:54 PM · Jan 11, 2020
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|timestamp=7:16 PM · Jan 11, 2020
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|content=Next point: do you think that it is more or less efficient to pretend STEM workers are ‘graduate students’ being paid with [[Immigration|immigration]] lures and not allowed to unionize or is it better to use markets?
|timestamp=7:16 PM · Jan 11, 2020
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|content=Additionally, how many of the [[H-1B Visa|H1Bs]] are tethered to “sponsoring employers” or masters? What happens when wage signals are distorted by servitude? How many niche businesses founded by immigrants would have been founded by natives? Why is this often not estimated or set to zero??
|timestamp=7:16 PM · Jan 11, 2020
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|content=Overarching point: our entire immigration discussion is framed &amp; structured to come to conclusions favored by employers. It excludes rights issues, efficiency issues, tampering, dilution, externalities. You are interpreting my frame rejection as my not having thought about this.
|timestamp=7:20 PM · Jan 11, 2020
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|content=Well, maybe they should go. I hear China is hiring! Also maybe Russia. Posssibly Saudi &amp; Iran too. 

So go run to your new masters STEM employers. Maybe you weren't cut out to make it in the dynamic freedom loving US economy.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out though.,,
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|content=No. We need to stop having our big hearts used against our own economic interests. True refugees once rescued make FANTASTIC citizens. A tiny number of Geniuses give us an edge &amp; families often need to be together.

What's evil is the campaign to destroy worker bargaining power.
|timestamp=5:07 AM · Jan 15, 2020
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|content=I don't know how many immigrants we'll need. What I do know is coward CEOs want to tame the famously disagreeable &amp; independent US worker and make her/him more pliant. And by threatening that worker with a steady supply of 'the best and the brightest' he or she becomes docile.
|timestamp=5:07 AM · Jan 15, 2020
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|content=Since we're drowning in oceans of STEM talent in a market economy where long term [[Labor Shortages|labor shortages]] are impossible, we easily see who those cowards are. They're STEM employers insisting on a French kiss from our government &amp; threatening to take the ball abroad if they don't get it.
|timestamp=5:10 AM · Jan 15, 2020
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|content=So here’s our choice. 

Either: 

A) Stop whining and pay US STEM costs for some of the best and most irreverent mavericks in the world.

B) Shut down the programs that can’t compete.

C) Prepare to have PRC work its way into every corner of US R&amp;D by supplying our workforce.

🙏
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|content=This is hard to keep saying: almost everything we think about STEM is wrong.

A) We the US are GREAT at science.

B) Workers are mislabeled as students/trainees.

C) We underfund research.

D) China sends workers valued by Unis as they not as free or expensive as our own people.
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|content=Are you suggesting that US universities should have had fewer STEM doctoral candidates in total, or that they should have excluded foreign nationals, or only foreign nationals from a country with an “incompatible form of government?” 1/x
|timestamp=7:23 AM · Mar 25, 2020
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|timestamp=5:55 PM · Mar 25, 2020
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|content=Think of it as “Intellectual Munchausen By Proxy” where the leadership of STEM at @NSF and @theNASciences have historically made up stories about how their own children (US STEM) are too sickly/greedy/unruly to do research. But our pliant temp visa holders are obedient wiz-kids.
|timestamp=5:55 PM · Mar 25, 2020
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|content=The US STEM complex is induced to murder careers of our own people because we are not trained to be obedient workers. We use freedom &amp; irreverence based education. Our edge is our middle finger and US STEM folks rightly demand market level US salaries to power our market economy.
|timestamp=5:55 PM · Mar 25, 2020
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|content=Here’s the thing: I think this is all proxy speak. I don’t think any of this is real. No one is making real sense.

We‘re simply repeating incantations to each other. This isn’t science or normal public health. This is what you do when you are pretending too hard to be competent.
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|content=I didn’t follow “Flatten the curve!”

I can’t grasp the mask instructions.

I don’t grok “Herd Immunity.”

I don’t follow the “It’s not the Wuhan Lab!” logic.

I don’t get the vaccine target dates.

NB: I also didn’t get “'''The great Moderation'''”, NAFTA or “[[Labor Shortages|The STEM Labor Shortage]]”.
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|content=The CDC has released six "decision trees" aimed at helping businesses, communities, schools, camps, day cares and mass transit decide on whether it's safe to reopen
https://www.cnn.com/webview/us/live-news/us-coronavirus-update-05-14-20#h_621046cd0ac22fb4e65953265da78130
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|content=America: Up to 1/2 of your STEM workforce is imported from four of the biggest military spending nations in Asia so that your own wealthy don’t have to engage in wage negotiation with American Scientists.

But by all means, let’s focus on this as if we aren’t giving it all away.
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|content=SCOOP/BREAKING NEWS: The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks, officials directly familiar with the matter said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/17/nuclear-agency-hacked-officials-inform-congress-447855
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|content=I still just marvel at how complete &amp; beautiful the multi-decade lies are.

It would never occur to me that you could shout about the danger &amp; madness of these things from an account and podcast of this size in front of this many journalists and the lies just remain. Perfection.
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|content=We have been faking a continuous unrelenting labor shortage of Scientists and Engineers since Sputnik. We replaced our own genius based research system with a cheap labor system. We give everything away to the CCP so we don’t have to pay market price to scientific families.
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|content=Thanks for opening my eyes to this artificially constructed shortage of american STEM students, Eric. As a younger guy who didn't experience the history, I've never heard anyone else ever talk about this (real life or media)
|timestamp=4:37 PM · Dec 18, 2020
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|timestamp=6:02 PM · Dec 18, 2020
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|content=And despite decades of work, no mainstream news desk can cover and stay on this bizarre story. All the books, peer reviewed papers and conferences on this issue later...and the big enormous lie continues.

[[Labor Shortages|There is no such thing as a long term labor shortage in a market economy.]]
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|timestamp=6:02 PM · Dec 18, 2020
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