Low effort thread about @RichardHanania discussion with Amy Wax yesterday, since my other thread did well. Unfortunately, I don't have video.
Rich is surprised to hear Wax say that diversity leads to free speech being quashed, but that happens all the time. Here is an example from Malaysia: thosewhocansee.blogspot.com/2018/10/so-whe…
Richard says that immigrants assimilate, and that is true for things like language and dress and stuff but he fails to understand the differences below the surface persist. Here is trust from The Culture Transplant:
Something similar can be seen with whites moving out of the South, and the subtle changes they brought:
Richard says that racial issues can be described as a white civil war about black issues. He ignores that Asians and Hispanics grow the lefts ranks in many ways ie most Hispanics support BLM
Richard says that whites who care about illegals don't live around any. Doesn't seem to be the case. Whites also flee wealthy Asian areas. theconversation.com/donald-trump-a…
Hanania brought up Jan 6th said that Wax would be extremely angry if it were done by Hispanics. I thought he had a decent point, but one thing to note is frustration over immigration likely contributed to Jan 6th.
Hanania says that we need to let all college graduates in to catch the next Jensen Huang. That would be a bad idea.
His policy also would have let America let these two fine gentlemen in:
Related to Nvidia, there are lessons to be learned looking into the chip industry in Taiwan. The role that the government played in building it up would no doubt be looked down upon by Richard. They worked to get a small number of skilled people, not every developer in India.
Some of the most people Taiwan got were high skilled immigrants to the US. In some sense, US skilled immigration policy may have helped build our competitors:
1/ THREAD on demographics of final teams in the World and European cups. This cup's final features the mostly castizo Argentinian team, facing off against the 92% white Spanish team with two prominent players with African ancestry.
2/ In the 2024 European cup, the mostly white Spanish team beat the half white English team.
3/ In 2022, the castizo Argentinian team beat the 48% black, 32% white French team in penalty kicks.
Survey that compared the opinions of the general public to expert criminologists. Only 9.4% of criminologists support the death penalty.
88% of criminologists believe solving social problems are more important for reducing crime over hiring more law enforcement. Criminologists as a whole are much less sympathetic to gun rights.
Overall most criminologists think the criminal justice system is unfair while the general public thinks it is fair.
1/ THREAD. There are two common narratives about the labor market: one that employers can't find workers and the other that employees can't find work. I wanted to read and do a thread on this book to continue to try to parse these contradictory narratives.
1/ Thread looking at paper from 2014 from dissecting claims of a labor shortage. This data is all old at this point but we see similar narratives today. On one side people claiming a labor shortage and on the other side, college graduates claiming they can't get jobs.
2/ The idea that America is falling behind in skills goes back a long time.
Some excerpts from WSJ article about the 10 million population cap referendum in Switzerland. The journal admits the historic wave of immigration to the West hasn't solved economic problems:
Economics professor from Canada admits that immigration hasn't solved Canada's problems.
Economic output per worker has stagnated across some of the countries that have accepted the most immigrants.