This is a good time to remember that without immigration the US will only have 5% of the top people in each field. http://paulgraham.com/95.html
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You didn't say in the essay that talent was necessarily equally distributed. You made a specific reference to the "best" programmers.
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That's the basis of the idea that if you have x% of the population, (100 - x)% of the best people will be born elsewhere.
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this is of course ceteris paribus, but things like education and internet access is hard to discount.
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Paul ok I think this is a much longer and deeper conversation in that essay was used to support a focus on immigration for US tech
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my concern with this approach is that it adversely impacts a ready potential + diverse talent pool right here that has been ignored.
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