The AI dilemma: To compete with China, the U.S. needs Chinese talent
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Immigration restrictions can accelerate the flight of top talent, threatening the strategy that it is better to have the brightest minds working for U.S. companies.
  • CrookedSerpent [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Hey, maybe id be one of the “good” Chinese Americans working my big special oriental brain for piggy if your honkey citizenry wasn’t so horrifically racist and cruel to me as a child that I became a misanthropic nihilist that had already given up on life at the age of 12! 🙂 Sorry, got too real there, I need therapy but I’m American so I can’t afford it.

  • footfaultsEnglish
    10·
    5 months ago

    America doesn’t want to spend ANY funds on education and grow the talent internally. They would rather poach highly skilled talent that other countries have spent the resources to produce (by having healthcare, good education, healthy food and environment) and then exploit that labor for a fraction of its real value.

    This whole framing of “we need foreign talent” obfuscates this

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPEnglish
      9·
      5 months ago

      Exporting the cost of education to other countries and then reaping their best talent has absolutely been the strategy. However, now that the US is turning increasingly xenophobic and isolationist, the talent pipeline is starting to break down. What’s worse is that the US is starting to lose existing talent as educated people flee to other countries.

      • footfaultsEnglish
        8·
        5 months ago

        100%. The solution would be for US to tax the wealthy and do a full top-down re-organization of the economy to build the infrastructure necessary to produce top talent, but we all know they won’t.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPEnglish
          5·
          5 months ago

          Right, there’s no path towards this sort of restructuring at the stage of capitalism that the US is at now.