"More Americans should go into math and engineering. The opportunities, pay and pschic rewards are very good, and anyone good at what they do is not afraid of the competition. Jump in, the water's fine."
"Maybe people are afraid of "competition", lack of stability and becoming "obsolete" when reaching forty."
Are we a whiny, wimpy, cant-do culture afraid of our shadow, or a self-reliant, self-confident can-do society?
If you are good at your work 'competition' means nothing, it's just a bunch of folks not quite as good as you at what you do. If you want to not be 'obsolete', stay technically current. If you dont like the rules at work, make your own rules by working for yourself. etc.
I'm not for open borders, as I said, but this assumption that Americans at any level not being to take the heat of competition from some immigration is frankly insulting to Americans.
Why US workers should not be "wimpy" but their employers should have all advantages?
I'm not for open borders, as I said, but this assumption that Americans at any level not being to take the heat of competition from some immigration is frankly insulting to Americans.
Are you saying that American workers should support open borders for the sake of more competition?
Trouble is our public schools have been dumbed down, and no one is willing to put the pressure on kids (they rarely put pressure on themselves) to actually compete in math and hard sciences. That is why our PhD programs are all full of Asians and people from India. Our kids, thanks to our wonderfully expensive public schools, can't or won't compete.