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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 17, 2022

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America letting tens of thousands of white Germans move here is far more likely than you think- US immigration laws are relatively loose and bringing in legal high skilled immigration from Europe to open a factory here is probably the least controversial thing the government could do- after all, those Germans would code as blue tribers by default to American managerialists.

US immigration laws are relatively loose

People sometimes mention this here, but every time I (as a "highly skilled" European with education and very in demand skills) consider maybe checking employment in the US, it looks basically impossible. Or at least extremely cumbersome. Am I missing something?

It is very easy under certain circumstances, but those circumstances have almost nothing to do with your qualifications to be a productive citizen in American society. Immigrating to the US via qualifications can be almost impossible unfortunately.

Feels like it. My partner is Latina. She has a TON of friends whose immigration path is to take a trip with a tourist visa, start working illegally or stay with family, somehow find a way to legally stay after a while. I feel like people I know that successfully emigrated to the USA are either already really well off in their native countries, or quite desperate and gonna take any chance. Meanwhile I just don’t have the means or don’t feel such a hard obligation.

the least controversial thing the government

I don't think it'd come to that, however, no, inviting in 100k+ euros would not go without major controversy.

Eh, there would be a few people opposed, but to the red tribe they would code as bringing high-paying industrial jobs and to the blue tribe as fellow blues.

bringing high-paying industrial jobs

Most of the companies that make Germany an industrial powerhouse are making specialist stuff that's not easy to replicate.

Anything that could have been easily outsourced was outsourced to China.

You need knowledge of the processes and the skilled people.

Just buying the companies would get you.. nothing, really, without an arduous multi-year process of bringing over the employees and learning from them.