Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star...
by xapata on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:27PM
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Ok. So wouldn't it be better then to simply put a cap on the number of immigrants per month and not screen them for characteristics beyond criminality?
We could cut bureaucracy and improve economic efficiency at the same time! I'm a small-government guy.
Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star...
by stale2002 on Monday March 13, 2017 @02:30PM
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Sure, but let's say there are 10X the number of applicants compared to the cap.
How do you choose which ones?
If you put on any cap, you are picking and choosing.
Personally, I'd sort by salary/expected taxes.
Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star...
by xapata on Monday March 13, 2017 @03:36PM
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Randomness is a reasonable policy until proven inferior. It's efficient and ensures no systematic failure. I'd prefer an experiment comparing any selection strategy against randomness before using that strategy. Even then, it'd be helpful for future experiments to continue to use some random selection indefinitely.
I've worked with many large "successful" companies over the years. At every one of them I've found bureaucratic procedures which are worse than random. They're the kind of convoluted process which started out as a good idea and then morphed over the years into a tradition for its own sake -- "that's the way it's done!" -- and gathered false post-hoc rationalizations.
Immigration Program A that already exists allows 200k with qualities B.
This is the state of the current world. We have an existing bureaucracy that dictates who is allowed to immigrate, and when.
Make change C so that Program X allows 250k, and Program A only allows 50k.
Change C is not changing the amount of government bureaucracy. We already had the bureaucracy! We were doing the centrally planning already, and making change C does not make it any more centrally planned, because it was already centrally planned.
Imagine a government run factory already exists. Now imagine making a change to the government fun factory. This change is not ADDITIONAL central planning, because it was already a government run factory.