opening up to the general TL shape my object level view if you wannahttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/955970580032864257 …
my framework is most analogous to natural resource allocation mechanisms are you concerned that (say) people who expect to recoup their costs by extracting welfare are likely to outbid oligarchs, tech firms, w/e?
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Well, let's consider some specific examples. Some people were mad about Irish immigration. That turned out OK, but if there was more, maybe Tammany Hall would still be around today and cause lots of problems.
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Harvard used to have a cap on the number of jewish students, but pressure from media got them to drop that. Today, Harvard and Yale admit more jewish undergrads than non-jewish white undergrads.
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solution, seems to me, is more asians :D
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A lot of the chinese immigrants I've met are going into either medicine or becoming real estate agents. The number of doctors is limited by med school slots, and there are already enough good applicants. Our institutions cannot manage this kind of incentivized bottleneck.
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There are already too many real estate agents in the area, each doing far fewer sales than they could handle, but each is highly profitable. Rates can't be lowered because then incentives are bad, plus they're sort of standardized between real estate agents.
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I know many people who have had Chinese professors, and they're almost universally considered bad teachers.
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I once dealt with a Chinese immigrant patent examiner who could hardly speak english. He gamed their "points" system as hard as he could and did well within the bureaucracy despite being completely incompetent.
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there's also the issue of values, eg free speech: http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2017/11/free-speech-absolutism.html …
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