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New Aporia article (link below, thanks Elon) on nonlinear ethnic niches. This is the Patel Motel Cartel phenomenon - where an ethnic group completely takes over a part of the economy (Gujaratis are 0.3% of the US population, but own 80-90% of small-town motels) they have no…
"Refugees resettled under this program get 12 months of income and settlement support through the Resettlement Assistance Program." This country is so ****'d. We're literally murdering old people to save money, while doing this.
Canada has started a large scale marketing campaign to recruits LBQGTI "refuges" into Canada Huge income and social benefit programs provided canada.ca/en/immigration…
Why not pick a different commodity, like coal?
Homes have almost never been cheaper when priced in gold. The housing market is only unaffordable because our fiat money is increasingly worthless.
I don’t care where she was born. She advocates for foreigners. She is attempting to destroy American sovereignty with mass amnesty. She uses shame and guilt to advocate for illegal aliens. She’s not an American. She hates this country. I make no apology for saying so.
"Get the hell out": Daily Wire's Matt Walsh tells Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar she’s “not American" and should "go back to Cuba." She was born in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood. #BecauseMiami
These two sentences next to each other should be impossible. And yet.
Interesting article here on the Somalian truck drivers. Key words: labor shortage, predominantly white, Asalamu Calaykum akhiyaarta sharafta leh. "In what has traditionally been a predominantly white field, today Somalis are just one of several immigrant groups rising to fill…
The number of "lost Einsteins" in Indonesia (average IQ: 82, and zero history of impressive technical, scientific, or philosophical achievements) is negligible.
Indonesia is truly beautiful, But it’s striking to see so little mechanisation of agriculture. Whether I visit tobacco, rice, or fish farms, much is still done by hand. So many potentially brilliant minds still trapped in drudgery - “Lost Einsteins”.
>English literature graduate >Needs translator Many of our universities are just visa mills for the third-world.
Graduate visa. English literature. University of Bedfordshire. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Also should go without saying, but "openness to immigration/immigrants" in the abstract is not a requirement of successfully recruiting foreign experts ("brain drain") and can even backfire. Think people saying London has lost its charm.
The PRC, with the world's least foreign-born population, shows how to do "brain drain" the right way: identify small numbers (50-100 per year) of experts in key areas and pay them huge sums of money (4-6 million RMB) to work in the PRC and transfer their skills to Chinese.
It's possible to imagine a world in which the TAP was seen as a disaster (as industrial and tech transfer to China is sometimes seen and could turn out to be), say if the 70s rapprochement between Western Europe and the USSR went somewhere.
The Marshall Plan was mostly money, these transfers went under the banner of the Technical Assistance Program (TAP) which was added to the Marshall Plan to reduce the US trade surplus with Europe and Japan.