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Comment by rayiner

16 hours ago

> I honestly hope your economy will completely collapse.

The U.S. passed restrictive immigration laws in 1921. The foreign born population dropped to under 5% by 1970 (compared to 15% today). The decade on either side of that was a golden age for Silicon Valley.

For the record, Sergey Brin, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Patrick and John Collison, and Jerry Yang are foreign-born. Probably more would not have been here if their parents had not been allowed to immigrate. Now that you mention it, I would trade a few of them away, but I doubt the market would like to erase their work.

  • The first three we would be better off without, don’t recognize the last three. Not sure you are really selling your point.

    • I don't have a particular love for any of them, but the point was they generated billions in value for the valley in what some consider a golden age.

      Google at least, I think people would say there was a period of near-universally believing it was a good thing, and one immigrant was a founder.

      It definitely shaped our society. And if you think it's for the worse, might that suggest college-educated Anglo-adapting immigrants are more dangerous to us than the ones right-wingers are telling us to focus on?