[amerliore]

You won the birth lottery by having the IQ to do this kind of work.

Software professionals would not be against immigration if VCs and their portfolio companies were not illegally suppressing wages using anti-competitive tactics.

Employers are suppressing wages using both hard and soft collusion. If they stopped doing that no one would have an issue with letting more workers in.

Still--the argument applies--why not just create software companies in your place of origin?

How are you giving back to your country of origin by participating in a brain drain, where all the talents of your high IQ are awarded to the imperialists that keep your home country in a state of economic subordination in the first place?

There is a very strong argument to be made that the best way to help "3rd world countries" is to refrain from draining their best and brightest brains. Paul Graham is arguing that America should fuck the rest of the world by stealing their best people, leaving the dregs to wallow in a ghetto of human misery.

[fw109]

Yes, I agree with you about the brain drain. But it's complicated, isn't it? At the moment, there isn't the right sort of environment to build a successful software company in my country of origin. The usual suspects are there: corruption, lack of infrastructure. and so on. Things are improving, but there's a long way to go.

But I wasn't quite arguing that I would be giving back to my country of origin. That is not to say that I don't want to. I was just arguing for myself, and people like me: foreigners in search of a better life, regardless of the geographical location.