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=== 2024 ===
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|content=Posted this later, as an example:
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|content="A growing influx of foreign PhD's into U.S. labor markets will hold down the level of PhD salaries to the extent that foreign students are attracted to U.S. doctoral programs as a way of immigrating to the U.S."
-Photograph from the secret [[National Science Foundation|@NSF]] study that led to the H-1B.
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|content=I highly recommend learning about the history of where H-1B came from before getting emotionally invested in it.
|content=I highly recommend learning about the history of where H-1B came from before getting emotionally invested in it.


It was born as a labor tampering conspiracy against American scientists headquartered at the @theNASEM (GUIRR) & @nsf (PRA) under Erich Bloch.
It was born as a labor tampering conspiracy against American scientists headquartered at the @theNASEM (GUIRR) & [[National Science Foundation|@nsf]] (PRA) under Erich Bloch.


https://t.co/w9xo9srcKa
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/how-why-government-universities-industry-create-domestic-labor-shortages-of-scientists-high-tech-workers
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|content=So @VivekGRamaswamy: let's debate your ideas about why these programs are controversial.
Everyone sane in the US wants a strong America. My contention is that these programs were *designed* to weaken us as a STEM powerhouse to save money for employers. Let's debate this out. No?
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|content="A growing influx of foreign PhD's into U.S. labor markets will hold down the level of PhD salaries to the extent that foreign students are attracted to U.S. doctoral programs as a way of immigrating to the U.S."


-Photograph from the secret @NSF study that led to the H-1B. https://t.co/Wrd3DL2Q8h
-Photograph from the secret [[National Science Foundation|@NSF]] study that led to the H-1B.
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|content=Our own scientists and engineers expect their kids to go to the top schools. They expect to get recognized for discoveries. They expect academic freedom. They expect to be financially secure.
Etc etc.


I say @VivekGRamaswamy, that our system produces the best STEM talent in the world and then promptly destroys most of what it produces in favor of more pliant labor. Let’s have this out.
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I invited you to a public debate about your claims as I’ve been fighting this insinuation of inferior American values in STEM for 35 years or more.
I invited you to a public debate about your claims as I’ve been fighting this insinuation of inferior American values in STEM for 35 years or more.


It’s a myth that came out of the @NSF & @theNASEM.
It’s a myth that came out of the [[National Science Foundation|@NSF]] & @theNASEM.


Let’s debate this in public. On camera.
Let’s debate this in public. On camera.
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|content=The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
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|timestamp=6:47 PM · Dec 30, 2024
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|content=The claim that America is inferior in STEM is calumny. What is true is that Americans in STEM behave like *Americans*.
Our own scientists aren’t going to act like employees.
Our engineers aren’t going to say “Whatever you say boss!”
We aren’t lining up to sign your DEI oaths.
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