Do you want your child to grow up to be Zack or Slater from Saved by the Bell, or do you want him to grow up to be like Screech? For the past week, this debate has raged on after the future Department of Government Efficiency Co-Chairman Vivek Ramaswamy posted on X an argument for more legal immigration of skilled workers.
He explained:
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
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