Immigrants as Job Creators

[ysabetwordsmith]

This article looks at immigrants as job creators.

I'll give you another reason that fits both immigrants and refugees: survival of the fittest.  These are people who left a marginally okay to downright dangerous situation in search of better opportunities elsewhere.  Earth has a LOT of displaced people, voluntary and involuntary.  Many of those don't make it very far before getting stuck in a camp where work is banned or getting sunk by somebody's navy who doesn't want them landing.  So the ones who make it to far-flung destinations like America tend to be the most persistent and capable ... or the luckiest, which also bodes well in entrepreneurship. 

A smart country would be taking advantage of that and engaging their skills as fast as possible.  Local-America is not that smart.  Terramagne-America is a lot smarter (mostly) hence the Rutledge thread of Polychrome Heroics.

Comments

[arlie]

Interestingly, the rules for immigrating into the US work against entrepreneurship. Most come via the H1 route, and are stuck working for a specific employer until they finally get their green card. If they come from a large country that sends many immigrants, that can take a long time; even coming from a less popular country it took several years. You can come specifically to found a business - if you have sufficient money - which excludes many/most who'd otherwise found businesses.