This is not a blackpill, just an important piece of context. It is not enough to look at a chart or two, you must FEEL the sea of spikes. The supply is unlimited. Nonmerit immigration is a form of arson. The BATNA is 7 to an apartment in Lagonairachiburg. The deal is--it doesn't matter, they already said yes. The only winning move is not to play.
Not sure what your point is. Africa is not nearly as spiky as some of the other continents. Yes, immigration is probably unlimited because here is better than 7 to an apartment, but if you're a young person there's nothing from stopping you creating a boarding house. Maybe it might even be possible to keep clean.
Maybe I was too flippant in my first post. My point is this: there’s extreme population density across the Global South, to an extent that most in the US and EU have no intuition for. There are at least 40 cities in India that you’ve never heard of but each of which have a population (and population density) exceeding Manhattan. This extreme density creates osmotic pressure in a way that a traditional rural society (with people bound to land) does not. It’s why every visa application, every remote job listing, every even marginally monetizeable corner of the web is immediately oversubscribed.
Look what happened to Canada in just the last 10 years. Look what happened to Twitter during the few months Elonbux were available in India.
If you ever run a conference or competition of any kind, you will get cold DMs asking in chatgptese if you might need an extra speaker or judge. They are trying to game the O-1. Extrapolate this across every other visa and access point. Anything that can be gamed will be gamed.
> Africa is not nearly as spiky as some of the other continents
True. Currently the highest pressure source is South Asia. But Africa is the one and only continent that is rapidly getting spikier.
It’s all solvable. It’s going to be OK. Everything exposed must be appropriately hardened. Selective spaces will survive and thrive. Gnon shows us that high-trust zones exist only through constant maintenance and adaptive defense. No plan survives contact with the enemy.
I've seen that before. Friend groups share resources like how redditors will swarm companies for free but meaningless stuff. https://reddit.com/r/freebies/ People on the internet asking me for free stuff after I made some project cause they don't want to spend money but it doesn't hurt to try. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/04/03/the-locust-economy/
Didn't know that hosting a conference is enough to let someone come on an O-1 visa though. That's new. I don't even feel like how I live is that good, and all these people are trying to come here? Tbh it's probably because of movies and TV shows.
> Didn't know that hosting a conference is enough to let someone come on an O-1 visa though
It's not. Speaking/judging/presenting/winning awards etc are all helpful toward the application.
O1 could be improved, but overall, it's actually an example of immigration policy done right: a substantial hurdle that takes agency, intelligence and dedication to clear. The people getting O1s are mostly people we want.
The less-selective visas are the problem. Western universities' increasing dependence on exchange student money is the problem---and I'm not talking Harvard, I'm talking about the fact that Illinois Tech is 50% foreigners. Colleges increasingly double as visa mills. Nonselective price-and-checkbox outsourcing is the problem. Chain migration (and its corporate equivalent, ethnocentric chain hiring) is the problem.
The point of the sea of spikes is that anything not sufficiently sealed will be penetrated.
What I'm wondering is where do these people go after graduating? Avoid getting deported? Low-wage fast-food? 4 people in a room? Nepo hired into companies? People tell me they exist at these degree mills, but what happens afterwards is anyone's guess.
I'm not sure you can have high-end and low-end immigration into a country at the same time. High-end immigration means less investment is needed for public schools, locking people out of that market. Stopping low-end immigration just prevents already underemployed people from becoming more unemployed.
