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The Economist, a magazine as mainstream and centrist as it gets, reports this week that immigration is only a fiscal benefit to the receiving country if an immigrant at least has a college degree. Lower human capital immigrants, instead of "funding pensions" like politicians promise, actually end up on welfare and are a drag on public... See more

More on H1-B: I've addressed this 18 y ago in The Black Swan: America's edge is in risk taking, not education. Any idiot can have education; you need to learn to fail. The American system has been based on trial and error. Which is why foreigners succeed here not at home. https://t.co/d8ZVQQ7FEG

Dans un système d'économie libre, aucune université qui se respecte ne voudrait enseigner à ses étudiants des choses si évidemment fausses et absurdes alors même qu'elle cherche à prodiguer à ses étudiants les connaissances les plus utiles. Mais dans un système académique complètement corrompu par l'argent étatique, le cursus n'est pas établi selon

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“There is something very odd about a society where the most talented people get all tracked toward the same elite colleges, where they end up studying the same small number of subjects and going into the same small number of careers… It’s very limiting for our society as well as for those students.”

Instant favorite. https://t.co/1HbG7tYtPr