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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some countries believe educating their people is an investment in its future prosperity and well being. America believes it’s an opportunity to profit off the success or, more likely failure, of discrete individuals.

If you’re wondering why our best and brightest are going to work for Wall Street instead of curing childhood cancer, just look at the incentives we’ve created. Without the steady flow of foreign Ph.Ds who got their undergrads for free and can afford to tough it out on grants, our domestic R&D industry is going to be wrecked. So much for America First. [/quote]

Beyond diplomacy, how has hiring foreign PhDs helped domestic PhDs who got passed over for jobs but graduated from the same universities? In Europe, that would not happen.[/quote]

How many domestic Ph.Ds in STEM do you think we have? And of those, how many go into research work? I’ll tell you - not nearly enough. [/quote]

Even people with Masters and Bachelors get passed over. Some of the issue is related to lack of interest from domestic students, some of it is due to the dismantling of K-12 education over the past 30 years (ans gets worse with each passing year like it’s intentional and probably the biggest issue), and among those who do get STEM degrees there is a bias / incentive to bring in foreign professionals for diplomatic reasons. Don’t get me wrong, immigration is a good thing but just like immigrant farm workers, these foreign professionals especially from poorer countries get exploited too (eg, not offered same pay).[/quote]

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