| > There's a reason the west was so productive in terms of new scientific and technological discoveries in the twentieth century > it's not that our scientists were the most consistent conscientious students who prepared extensively for exams and padded their resumes in just the right way. Instead, a large portion were immigrants or the children of immigrants who arrived in the US as part of trans-national brain drain from countries with strict education systems (eg. Hungarian Jewish Americans in WW2, Eastern Europeans in the 1980s to present, Asian Americans today). There's a reason Asian Americans, Eastern European Americans, and immigrant African Americans are overrepresented in leadership and white collar industries despite the very real handicap of having extended periods time without US citizenship or a greencard. Instead of optimizing for feel-happy edge cases, we should be optimizing for building the best talent where possible, and that requires being competitive. > We're selecting for robots. Frankly, this is insulting as well. Yes there are some late bloomers, but they are outliers. If they can truly succeed they would stil find a non-beaten path to succeed in a competitive ecosystem. > consistently through a phase of life that is widely understood as tumultuous for many Only to y'all "heritage" Americans. For those of us who are kids of immigrants, we learnt that life is a race, either you compete or you fall to the wayside. |