I’m skeptical even of skilled immigration. Perhaps even more skeptical of skilled immigration than unskilled immigration. Skilled immigrants are often elites back home. The people ruining things in India or Nigeria or China then come to America and bring their same attitudes with them.
That is an interesting reflection, which makes sense.
And it matches something I recently realized. In the west, what we call elite is not clearly linked to any merit.
I believe that what are considered elites got there not by being competitive but mostly in ways that are closer to what cheating is.
We are in an era of major stagnation in mobility for the lower part of the society precisely because the elite have been reproducing themselves and have shut down the competition by faking it and creating all kind of "standards" impossible to meet for peoples without the means.
I think immigration is just another cheat to prevent equalization. If we look at the distribution ok skills/competency of humans, it mostly follow a normal distribution, yet revenues are really not distributed like that...
