America’s Secret Innovation Weapon: Immigration

S.Aran · 07-23-2009, 05:24 PM

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Immigrants come to the United States and take menial jobs so that their children have a chance at a better future, he told me. While the jobs they take are below their intrinsic capabilities, they’re focused on giving their children a better life, not personal job satisfaction. Second-generation children, seeing how hard their parents work to give them an opportunity, in turn work hard at school, where, he noted, they often focus on mathematics and science in pursuit of the economic returns promised by careers in engineering and medicine. Third-generation kids figure the economic return on effort expended is better for business and legal professionals and pursue those professions instead of technical ones. By the fourth generation, any immigration-related incentives to work hard are largely nonexistent.

http://gigaom.com/2009/07/04/america...n-immigration/

deftbeta · 07-23-2009, 05:35 PM

So my son will be an attorney and my grandkid a bum. Don't know which one is worst.

S.Aran · 07-23-2009, 06:15 PM

Its an opinion piece and a good read.
he agress that immigration is good and needs to be addressed thats all.

LOL @ your comment though (not to be taking offensively), it would suck if my kids turned out to be bums. I would be mad, and haunt em forever!

nevfo · 07-24-2009, 04:35 AM

Haha just thinking about how it describes myself/family is crazy!

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America’s Secret Innovation Weapon: Immigration