Summary
A rift has emerged within Donald Trump’s MAGA base over immigration, sparked by his appointment of Indian-born entrepreneur Sriram Krishnan as AI adviser.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy defended hiring high-skilled foreign workers, emphasizing the need for global talent in tech, while far-right figures like Laura Loomer and Matt Gaetz criticized the move as anti-MAGA.
The debate reflects deeper divisions between Trump’s traditional anti-immigration stance and his recent openness to legal immigration for skilled graduates, signaling potential conflicts within his incoming administration.
I’m critical of it too, but not for the same reason as Loomer and Gaetz. My problem with it isn’t that it hurts America, but that helps America TOO much. If all of the best and brightest are coming to the US, they’re leaving their nations of origin, depleting the talent pool of those nations. It leaves those nations disadvantaged relative to the US, and it’s not fair for the US to have that advantage, because we are already the world’s dominant economic superpower. We can’t keep taking resources (in this case labor and intellectual resources) from poorer nations, to help generate profit for our wealthy elite.
Things being “not fair” is the thought process of children. The sooner you stop believing in it the sooner you’ll be better off in life.
Edit. Not attacking you at all, just pointing it out.
I was brought up on this harsh truth by my parents just like a lot of people, I assume, but I no longer believe it.
Sure, I believe we all owe it to ourselves and others to put hard work into the system, but there should be an inherent sense of fairness (or call it equality if you will, I don’t want to get bogged down in the tedium of definitions right now). If the system is unfair, we should be working to make it more fair. It’s not satisfactory to simply leave it as it is, broken, and tell everyone else to deal with it when they may not have the resources to do so.
I’m not saying you’re wrong. I say I refuse. I do not believe.
I agree.
Fairness and Justice are human concepts, not natural laws, therefore not guaranteed. But they can be built into our systems and into our collective values.
What kind of world do we want to build?
Equality, yes. That’s a different thing.
My life is fine, thank you.
I didn’t say otherwise.