Re:Ask HN: Recent denial of H1-B visas for low paying IT pos...
by pesfandiar on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:41AM
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There's no reason to believe the us/them boundary should be drawn at the US border.
1. Many other nations contributed to the collective body of human knowledge throughout the history, which resulted in huge technological leaps (China, Muslims, and Europeans in different eras). Wanting to contain the knowledge sounds short-sighted.
2. In order to make better sense of the economic trends in the past few decades, one could also look at different classes of global citizens. The ruling or economic elite classes may be equally indifferent about the poor inside and outside US.
1. Many other nations contributed to the collective body of human knowledge throughout the history, which resulted in huge technological leaps (China, Muslims, and Europeans in different eras). Wanting to contain the knowledge sounds short-sighted.
2. In order to make better sense of the economic trends in the past few decades, one could also look at different classes of global citizens. The ruling or economic elite classes may be equally indifferent about the poor inside and outside US.