but yeah merit based is good too

yes, but having a rich person (to pay taxes) or an educated person (to work difficult high-prosperity jobs) is a "Safer bet" than a "maybe he'll do well"

true

Of course you could be poor and make the country better. That's the great thing about merit. It ignores social status and race.

but that's basically calling for an ethnostate 😃 (substitute wealth for race)

i mean, would you rather have a licensed pilot fly your airplane? or a mexican who is nice and calls you his hombre? 😛

and has a plumbers license

just to reference that talk show woman 😄

por que no los dos?

who got upset cuz Trump wants to deport her toilet-cleaner

I, for one, welcome our new Mexican plumber airline pilot hombres

Kelly Osborne was it?

yes

god i'm terrible with remembering names for certain 😛

merit based with a quota, good

i always second guess myself

open borders bad

and that's what this comes down to

like how i sometimes think Tim Pool is called Tim Pond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0TFayRZeS8

sorry, no borders, not open borders

I even love how taht other woman goes "Oh thats... No...."

she totally knew that was such a bad things to say 😄

yup

but all in all thats why they prioritise higher-value people for immigration, cuz its a safe bet

and it then gives the lower-skilled people less chances to fight over, and that means less people from Less-developed nations

Elimination of borders serves two different ideologies, neither of which I agree with. Corporatists would be for the elimination of borders for the sake of easier trade and access to cheaper workforce. The whole reason Socialists are for eliminating borders is redistribution of wealth. The United States is wealthy, and one cannot simply sit on their wealth, it has to be shared. Redistributed. Anyone who wants the wealth of the United States should be able to take it. At least, that's what I get from it.

take it, no.. .earn it, hell yes

I disagree on that, too.

I mean

I'm not opposed to immigration

you disagree with being able to earn a piece of the pie?

but I don't think the US needs to go about headhunting

I think we need more pies.

there are always more pies

its not a zero sum game

just because someone becomes successful doesnt mean someone else has to become unsuccessful

It's a zero sum game packed within a non-zero sum game

The US Economy is, largely, zero sum.

The World Economy is... mostly not?

existing economys that rely on renewible resources extraction rates are zerosum, if you find a new source of resources and have the ability to harvest it on your own dollor for a profit thats when its more than zero sum