1. I didn't move any targets and your impression is clearly not at all sincere. 2. That is not my claim at all, since you're dropping half of the claim. I think we're done here.
You're the one judging a cancer patient's response to their diagnoses. I'm the one pointing out how wrong that is. So yes, it's about you personally and your actions. Not just you of course. We are all flawed. I think…
Let's not imagine scenarios that may or may not have anything to do with reality. Answer this question: what evidence would you accept to show that major American tech companies are using skilled immigration to drive…
You reread the link? He had the privilege of giving away a fortune, to causes he cares about, largely thanks to Steve Jobs. He's never worried about money and has millions in the bank and multiple houses, thanks to…
There's a lot more to fairly criticize about this. Mostly the system that allows it but also him for taking advantage of it. And yet it's basic human instinct to do what's possible to survive. I admit that I would have…
Many poor people could make it into the middle class by learning to do skilled jobs if given the opportunity. The number of opportunities is significantly reduced when companies have the easier and cheaper alternative…
Major corporations are hiring them because they're cheaper not because there aren't well educated Americans available. There are more than 60 million college educated Americans. That's 50% more than the entire…
It's very obvious that people, seeming you as well, take some delight in the idea that Steve Jobs killed himself with arrogance. That is morally repugnant. He was a pancreatic cancer patient coping with his diagnoses…
Steve Jobs's entire job for thirty years was recruiting, listening, and working with experts in various fields. He never would have succeeded without being able to accept that other people knew more than him in certain…
Funny how you applaud yourself for being correct but make no actual arguments. What are you claiming? That immigrants do not actually remit significant percentage of their income? That all or most remitted money comes…
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that slave labor is most represented in the industry that generated nearly all of America’s economic growth during the 18th and 19th century. Is the argument you're making, which is…
Your suggestion that these are "right wing" ideas when Bernie Sanders says the same thing and for the same reasons. You might accuse him of being "zero sum" but you can't accuse him of being right wing.
Poor Americans are the most in need of the opportunity tech jobs provide. That's how they can become non-poor Americans. Poor Americans are also the most vulnerable to unskilled immigration making them even poorer than…
1. Immigrants send to their home countries very significant amounts of their income, so it's always going to be net-negative in that sense. 2. Those companies that hired 1 million skilled workers could have hired 1…
I've never met anyone that argued for open borders that wasn't capable of isolating themselves from the negative effects. Like say, a tenured professor like Bryan Caplan. Open borders might be net-positive but would…
Your arguments are so convincing you don't even need to make them and there's no chance you're the one that's refusing to acknowledge reality. Okay...
Your argument is that all games are non-zero sum and supply and demand don't apply for some magical reason? Seems like I'm making the sound economic argument and you're just casting aspersions.
The way many people like yourself seem to have been completely fooled by major corporations wanting cheaper labor to exploit (through both legal, semi-legal, and illegal immigration) will be studied for generations.…
Some games (founding companies) are non-zero sum. Some (like employing Americans vs non-Americans) are zero sum. You're just hand-waiving away reality, which is a very non-programmer thing to do.
You're arguing that Americans have no more right to success in America than non-Americans. I don't think many Americans will agree with you. And neither will most people from any other country agree about their own…
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Even ChatGPT is making the same point I am "it’s widely believed by medical experts that Steve Jobs might have had a better chance See the keyword "might" in there? No one knows if he could have been saved, not even his…
"And it wasn't a lack of courage it was a misguided belief that he knew more than his doctors." You don't know anything about human psychology if you think searching for alternatives means he thought he was smarter than…
Steve Wozniak's world-touring adventure wasn't as an English teacher. He toured the world as a technology celebrity. Steve Jobs corralling him into starting a company made him an engineering hero, technology celebrity,…
Steve Jobs brought a hell of a lot more to the table than just raw ambition. I just meant to contrast the level of ambition between the two. Wozniak was extremely unambitious and Jobs pushed him into starting a company,…
1. I didn't move any targets and your impression is clearly not at all sincere. 2. That is not my claim at all, since you're dropping half of the claim. I think we're done here.
You're the one judging a cancer patient's response to their diagnoses. I'm the one pointing out how wrong that is. So yes, it's about you personally and your actions. Not just you of course. We are all flawed. I think…
Let's not imagine scenarios that may or may not have anything to do with reality. Answer this question: what evidence would you accept to show that major American tech companies are using skilled immigration to drive…
You reread the link? He had the privilege of giving away a fortune, to causes he cares about, largely thanks to Steve Jobs. He's never worried about money and has millions in the bank and multiple houses, thanks to…
There's a lot more to fairly criticize about this. Mostly the system that allows it but also him for taking advantage of it. And yet it's basic human instinct to do what's possible to survive. I admit that I would have…
Many poor people could make it into the middle class by learning to do skilled jobs if given the opportunity. The number of opportunities is significantly reduced when companies have the easier and cheaper alternative…
Major corporations are hiring them because they're cheaper not because there aren't well educated Americans available. There are more than 60 million college educated Americans. That's 50% more than the entire…
It's very obvious that people, seeming you as well, take some delight in the idea that Steve Jobs killed himself with arrogance. That is morally repugnant. He was a pancreatic cancer patient coping with his diagnoses…
Steve Jobs's entire job for thirty years was recruiting, listening, and working with experts in various fields. He never would have succeeded without being able to accept that other people knew more than him in certain…
Funny how you applaud yourself for being correct but make no actual arguments. What are you claiming? That immigrants do not actually remit significant percentage of their income? That all or most remitted money comes…
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that slave labor is most represented in the industry that generated nearly all of America’s economic growth during the 18th and 19th century. Is the argument you're making, which is…
Your suggestion that these are "right wing" ideas when Bernie Sanders says the same thing and for the same reasons. You might accuse him of being "zero sum" but you can't accuse him of being right wing.
Poor Americans are the most in need of the opportunity tech jobs provide. That's how they can become non-poor Americans. Poor Americans are also the most vulnerable to unskilled immigration making them even poorer than…
1. Immigrants send to their home countries very significant amounts of their income, so it's always going to be net-negative in that sense. 2. Those companies that hired 1 million skilled workers could have hired 1…
I've never met anyone that argued for open borders that wasn't capable of isolating themselves from the negative effects. Like say, a tenured professor like Bryan Caplan. Open borders might be net-positive but would…
Your arguments are so convincing you don't even need to make them and there's no chance you're the one that's refusing to acknowledge reality. Okay...
Your argument is that all games are non-zero sum and supply and demand don't apply for some magical reason? Seems like I'm making the sound economic argument and you're just casting aspersions.
The way many people like yourself seem to have been completely fooled by major corporations wanting cheaper labor to exploit (through both legal, semi-legal, and illegal immigration) will be studied for generations.…
Some games (founding companies) are non-zero sum. Some (like employing Americans vs non-Americans) are zero sum. You're just hand-waiving away reality, which is a very non-programmer thing to do.
You're arguing that Americans have no more right to success in America than non-Americans. I don't think many Americans will agree with you. And neither will most people from any other country agree about their own…
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Even ChatGPT is making the same point I am "it’s widely believed by medical experts that Steve Jobs might have had a better chance See the keyword "might" in there? No one knows if he could have been saved, not even his…
"And it wasn't a lack of courage it was a misguided belief that he knew more than his doctors." You don't know anything about human psychology if you think searching for alternatives means he thought he was smarter than…
Steve Wozniak's world-touring adventure wasn't as an English teacher. He toured the world as a technology celebrity. Steve Jobs corralling him into starting a company made him an engineering hero, technology celebrity,…
Steve Jobs brought a hell of a lot more to the table than just raw ambition. I just meant to contrast the level of ambition between the two. Wozniak was extremely unambitious and Jobs pushed him into starting a company,…