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This summer, U.K. prime minister Rishi Sunak raised the cost of working visa applications, which, according to some sources, would burden businesses with up to £10,000 in fees per skilled worker.
I think we can learn from how, in just two decades, pro-immigration and a dedication to nurturing the startup community has made Estonia into a tech power that now boasts more unicorns per capita than anywhere else in the world.
When it comes to hiring, the most straightforward solution is to tap into countries with surplus talent in roles essential for booming sectors like AI, engineering, and cybersecurity.
And while places like the Philippines, India, and Nigeria have a surplus of outstanding technical talent, the arduous process and high cost of obtaining working visas make hiring from these countries a founder’s nightmare.
The U.K. is witnessing a growing trend of founders starting out in the U.K. and then establishing their businesses elsewhere in Europe, where ecosystems in countries like France and Germany have matured considerably over the past few years.
How can we become leaders in AI, engineering, and sustainability if our political environment and archaic visa and immigration processes make hiring the best minds a painstaking and costly ordeal?
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Of course that’s one end of the problem. Another is actually fostering math and logic skills culturally, generally speaking.
Getting highly skilled people from India, China or Russia is great! But that we need to rely on desperate conditions that motivate people to cram so they can escape poverty is a problem in if it self.
It also gives mentally ill traditionalists ammunition to promote yee olde “disciplining” through physical and mental duress in schools, which is a whole 'nother buglum bear.
I’m betting we’ve screwed up by trying to put modern values and morals in school systems that are more or less following traditional schooling structure.
Rigidly scheduled classes, intermittent breaks, social grouping, yearly reviews, etc. These things don’t foster imagination and interests in students.
I personally believe in open school systems and making scholastic progress more about individual development rather than shoehorning a group of youth into an assembly line educational process.
That’ll also benefit immigrants, because hopefully schooling becomes more effective so that they don’t have to experience ignorance, social paranoia, envy and fear by way of under educated people reacting in a gutteral manner.
Wrong.
