“Fight Club wasn’t about winning or losing.” – Fight Club
What do you get for winning a muscle loss competition? Atrophy.
One of the things I thought about after the Big Christmas H1-B X® Debate is this simple question based off of Elon’s now famous Drunk Christmas Xeet (above):
What’s the price of winning?
First, I guess I’d ask the question – winning at what, exactly? There are lots of things that a country could win at. Here’s a stab at some things that I think would be fairly nice for a country to win at:
- Liberty
- Trust
- Happiness
- Low Corruption
- Low Crime
- Health
- Standard of Living
- Educational Achievement
- Cultural Accomplishments
- Innovation in PEZ® Delivery Devices
That’s not a very bad list, at all. A country that scored highly in these indices would be a pretty darn nice country to live in. It looks, hang with me for just a second, exactly like the United States through much of its existence prior to 1960.
Most people know about Karl Marx from his political philosophy, but few know about his sister, Onya, who invented the track race starter pistol.
Will bringing in more “people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated” help any of that?
Maybe. A little. The United States was a center where smart people wanted to come for years, especially in the post war era. We got a few that did really help – Von Braun and Fermi, for instance. However, some of the greatest prosperity the country had ever seen was when it was at its most restrictive in immigration.
I don’t think that was a coincidence. The Immigration Act of 1924 was ushered in based on the huge slug of mainly non-Western European immigrants hitting our shores – people who little in common with the existing peoples of the United States, other than having two eyes and butts and such. Having a never-ending stream of legal immigrants made the Act very, very popular.
How popular was the Act? 308-62 in the House, 69-9 in the Senate.
Remember, it’s not gay if it’s TSA.
The Act stabilized the existing ethnic makeup of the United States, with over 54% of allowable immigrants coming from English-speaking (this includes 11% from Ireland, which I assume counts) countries.
Imagine! Over half of the immigrants to the United States speaking English on day one, and 94% coming from nominally Christian countries. Oh! And only 150,000 a year.
The result was a Depression.
Just kidding – that was going to happen anyway, thanks to the Fed®.
No, the result was that during the Depression we weren’t swamped with millions of jobless imports every year to make the situation even worse. Oh, and it certainly didn’t hurt our own industry. It was ready to hire actual Americans when World War II hit. Did we need to import more people to build bombs and tanks and ships and planes?
No. We did just fine, thank you.
Grandma Wilder fought during World War II. She ended up getting a divorce.
And we were a much more unified country than today, leading in many of the categories I’ve put in the list above.
So, how is that not winning?
Elon imports Process Engineers on H1-B visas to work at his factories. He pays them less than the median wage for Process Engineers – only $0.86 on the dollar. Oh, and they can’t quit or they’re shipped back to India.
Is that winning? Is it winning to have people work like virtual slaves for 86% of the median wage? This doesn’t sound much like a rock star that we need to help us “win”.
Unless “win” means something else:
- Lower Worker Wages
- Higher Quarterly Profits
- Importing More GloboLeft Voters
- Higher House and Rent Prices
- More Inflation
- Increased Health Care Costs
I wonder how we got lulled to sleep?
Illegal aliens are bad enough, but legal ones can be just as economically corrosive, especially in the massive numbers that we’ve seen over the decades since 1965. The fact that many of them
- don’t speak English,
- have political views antithetical to liberty,
- are often openly hostile to the existing American population, and
- come from philosophical backgrounds entirely alien to Western Civilization
doesn’t help.
A few, sprinkled here and there? Yeah, in three or so generations they’d not stick out. But over (as of 2018) 26% of Americans are first or second generation, and I’d bet that number vastly undercounts illegals.
The goal, I think, was for Americans to not be able to speak out about the idea that they’re being replaced by cheaper foreign labor that is more amenable to living under totalitarian conditions. To want to defend the future of the continent where you and your forefathers built a civilization out of an untapped wilderness is somehow supposed to be wrong.
Oh, and the GloboLeft have been conditioned to hate Americans and those close to them. Their idea of empathy is horribly skewed. In the graph below (which I did a post on, but am too lazy to look up right now), the TradRight (on the left, oddly) has their highest concentration of empathy to those that they know – their family and close friends. The GloboLeftists have their empathy skewed out to . . . all lifeforms in the universe. The GloboLeftists don’t much like themselves, their family, or those that are close to them. They hate themselves and actively love people who are more foreign in ideology and genetics than their actual brothers and sisters.
The meme about my political philosophy above being a wholesome family wasn’t a joke. It’s actually a real thing.
If we want to win, well, first we have to define exactly what winning looks like. After that, it’s up to us to really look at what it is we need to do to win. My suggestion is that investing in our own people is probably better than treating them like a commodity to be bought and sold, or a horse to be worked to death pulling a plow to raise the children of people who hate us, who came here only as economic tourists.
Americans aren’t weak. We’ve proven that time and time again. Don’t let up, and don’t stop the pressure. Winning is important.