[justizin]

This foolish reasoning leans pretty strongly on the logical fallacy that it is in the best interest of everyone for all new businesses to be founded in the US, when in fact, it is in the best interest of everyone for new businesses to be founded all over the world, creating jobs everywhere.

This, in fact, has created the immigration supply and demand problem that the OP finds frustrating.

Build your business in columbia. Sell things over the internet or whatever your crashed ass website does, and live a happy life.

stop whining.

[taylorwc]

Your argument is absolutely true in the long run, from a global perspective. But can you really argue that the country in which a business is founded wouldn't benefit more than a neighboring country?

[justizin]

yes, i can. let's take columbia for an example. the united states spends (obviously wastes) billions of dollars fighting cocaine production there. it may actually be a net win to fucking _send_ entrepreneurs there to give creative-minded young folks an alternative to spending their creativity evading capture.

[taylorwc]

Fair enough for an example that is fighting an illegal activity whose origins are outside of the country, but that seems like a fringe scenario, albeit a huge market. In the context of a business start, it is almost always more beneficial to a local/regional/national economy to have it be domestic.