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This is a very incorrect statement. 40% of all current US unicorns have an Indian immigrant founder. They might be the greatest job creators in the economy. Giving them up will be the end of the US.

1% of the population starting 40% of our billion dollar companies.

https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/foreign-born-entrepreneu...





> 40% of all current US unicorns

This should be easy to cite. Thanks in advance.



It appears that close to 20% of all unicorns were founded by Indian entrepreneurs, which is still remarkably eye-opening.

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This reads like some bizarro IT version of Schrödinger's Immigrant: Both stealing our jobs AND taking our welfare checks at the same time!

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If someone who doesn't even have your language as their first language can just come and steal your job, maybe that's a little bit your fault too.

Yes it is. That is why we are fixing the problem with Trump.

That doesn't fix the underlying problem which is you being not very competent.

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If you someone born in a village with a fake diploma and no skills other than prompting an LLM can steal your job, you're just not very good.

Flipside: I'm not worried that a person like that would ever steal my job.

You see what I'm saying, or still nah?


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