Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016

Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by sangnoir on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:18AM (#29494422)

I hope you're not suggesting that Australia is getting low-quality immigrants. Unlike the US, Australia has a points-based immigration system where you have to meet specific, standardized criteria, which IMO is more objective than the US process. I don't know what guidance State Department staffers follow when determining who gets a visa, but the process is more opaque, and I suspect more subjective.

edit: I think the "quality" argument is overrated. Not all immigrants do ground-breaking research or start billion-dollar companies. When it comes to economic activity, quantity has a quality of its own (apologies to J. Stalin). A city/state/country with the economic activity of an extra 20% population of mediocre, healthy, tax-paying, car-buying, mortgage-paying, burger-eating blue and white-collar immigrants is better off than one without.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by 908B64B197 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @02:45PM (#29501990)

> I don't know what guidance State Department staffers follow when determining who gets a visa, but the process is more opaque, and I suspect more subjective.

Except for categories where there's an extremely high burden of proof for extraordinary abilities, it's simply someone's ability to get a job no American is qualified to take (and be so in demand that it commands a salary in the top percentiles for the profession).

So the market takes care of the selection.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by arcticbull on Friday December 10, 2021 @05:18AM (#29508325)

> ... it's simply someone's ability to get a job no American is qualified to take.

Not exactly, its someone's ability to get a job that their employer cannot find a more qualified candidate after advertising the job in the local newspaper for 6 months including at least two separate Sundays.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by 908B64B197 on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:53PM (#29514703)

There's more to it than that.

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