about the topic. My old view, my old view prior to Biden, and it's now changed because of Biden, but my old view is that you want to keep everybody smart. So if somebody wants to come in and they've got a high education in some valuable field or even if they just want to be an optometrist or make money, that the country is better off every time you bring in somebody who's going to add to the tax base, in other words pay taxes, and is not going to take much. So my old view, and again this is revised, but my old view is you take everybody who is smart and additive. Now how you decide whether somebody's smart enough and additive, I don't think we have a good system for that. So my desires are not supported by any kind of good system.

After Biden opened the border and MAGA became the dominant majority opinion in the country, they were very, very, very clear about limiting immigration. Under that environment it probably makes sense to not allow in the country people who would be additive. Do you get that? So under the current cultural political situation I think it would just disturb too many people to bring in people who even would add to the country even if you're sure of it they would add. So at the moment I'm opposed because Biden essentially ruined the atmosphere for immigrants. He ruined it by making it just everybody come on in. Then all the nuances just drained out of it and we probably have to work pretty hard to correct things. But the argument does not apply to the 0.1% engineer. So let me say this as completely, this is the most firm confident opinion I'll ever give. You cannot have enough 0.1% top engineers because engineers are not like optometrists and doctors and lawyers. The 0.01% engineer is developing the future, like the very civilization-changing work. You want all of those and we don't have anywhere near enough. Not even close. You know, as Elon Musk reminds us.

Now a lot of people argue that Elon Musk doesn't understand the topic of hiring top engineers, to which if I may do a facepalm. So I spent some of my time explaining that Elon Musk probably knows a little bit about hiring top engineers. I don't think I need to develop my argument on that too hard. But there was a, so that's the first thing. So it's unambiguously good for the country to bring in the top engineers and anybody who would argue that that would be stupid. Honestly I wouldn't even listen to the argument on the other side. It would just be stupid because you're not talking about changing the culture of the United States. You're talking about people who almost always already speak English better than you do and are the top, top, top students. It's a completely different situation than bringing in Uber drivers. I'm not in favor of that at the moment. Now I think you can say all those things while still saying that immigrants are the reason the country is strong and etc. That's all true. It's just that Biden ruined the atmosphere for bringing in immigrants, even the ones who could add. He just ruined it. We might be able to get back to that but not until Trump gets things under control. So that's where I'm at now.

Secondly, the argument that I just gave you is a conceptual argument. Wouldn't it be nice to have only these people? And at the moment it would be impractical really to just open it up to everybody. But second to that, that's sort of the goal or where you'd like to end up. Is that the systems we have for deciding who comes in are completely corrupted. So some people were getting really mad that they thought I didn't understand that our current systems are not picking just the best of the best. They're pretty much abused by big companies just to get cheap labor. Everybody on board with that? Our current systems, all of them, 100% of our current systems are so gameable that big companies are using them not in the way that you want them to be used. Now there is a question about what would happen to your inflation if they hired more expensive labor from the US. So if you're willing to pay for more inflation then you would also be in fa