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Apple's Jonathan Ive Says Immigration Vital For UK Firms (bbc.com)
The UK must keep its doors open to top talent from around the world if its technology firms are to thrive, Apple's chief designer has told the BBC. An anonymous reader shares the article: Sir Jonathan Ive, who has just been appointed Chancellor of the Royal College of Art, also said that technology hubs like Silicon Valley had a "tremendous cultural diversity". Some technology firms fear they may lose access to talent after Brexit. "That general principle [on access] is terribly important for creating a context for multiple companies to grow and in a healthy way explore and develop new products and new product types," Sir Jonathan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Sir Jonathan said the UK had a "fabulous tradition of design education", but that it needed to do more to become a technology hub on a par with Silicon Valley in California, where the likes of Apple, Facebook and Google are based. "I think Silicon Valley has infrastructures to support start-up companies... ranging from technological support through to funding," he said. "And there is the sense that failure isn't irreversible, so very often people will work on an idea, and there isn't the same sense of stigma when one idea and perhaps one company doesn't work out."
...are these people going to stop pretending it's about talent?
It's not. It's about cheap, compliant, captive labor.
Disagree? YOU explain why these so-fucking-smart people need to be trained for six months by the locals they are replacing.
This might be the case in the USA, but in the UK the non-EU skilled migrant system is pretty tough to get through. It costs an employer a lot of money so it would be hard to see how anyone could save money doing this, especially with the EU labour pool readily accessible (for now).
I also find it quite sad that immigration has become all about some sort of global-economic-struggle. I came to the UK from NZ simply because I wanted to travel and experience new things. Frankly, since sterling crashed after the GFC my income in NZ would be higher than here (and my house would certainly be much nicer), so I'm certainly not hear for the economics. Many more British citizens go back the other way to enjoy a quieter pace of life and for me each country offers a very different experience and I think it is great that brits want to go enjoy living in NZ.
I don't deny that immigration can be used to suppress local wages, but for many young people it is fundamentally just part of experiencing all that the world has to offer. Life is short. Who would want to hole up in their backyard until they die?
According to Slashdot you can't train good engineers and developers, people are just born with an interest that is absolutely essential.
Or does that only apply to women.
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I used to be in favor more more lax immigration laws, but now I've changed course and decided that all immigration needs to be cut off completely, thanks to Jonathan Ive. Since he's come out publicly in favor of immigration, and I utterly despise his work, I'll now be forced to vote against politicians who are pro-immigration. Good job, Johnny.
Seriously, though, these corporate fools really should just shut their mouths, because they likely don't help build public support for their positions when they blab their personal opinions so publicly, and can even hurt their companies. How many people stopped buying from various companies like Barilla when their egotistical CEOs publicly proclaimed their opposition to gay marriage, for instance? How many people stopped shopping at Hobby Lobby when they outed themselves as Christian crusaders against contraceptives for their employees?
Telling schools what employment skills the other nations schools "teach" students so UK students can have the same advantages?
Tell UK universities what they are missing every year that makes some graduate from another nation so vital for a company every decade?
What is the UK lacking that poor nations with no funding can do so well every decade that no school or university in the UK can do?
The UK has had decades of the best teaching staff to educate teachers, the best teachers for its schools and universities, the language skills are equal, good health care, good nutrition, clean water, no national service issues to remove a section of a population from quality education.
UK students would have the same testing averages as most over advance nations ranging from the best in the world to average.
Nothing is really holding back UK education on average every decade. People graduate in the UK at a good rate every decade with merit based course work.
Workers in the UK should graduate from school and university with all the skills to fill any job in the UK. The UK has the ability to support its own people from vocational to very advanced university vocations.
Is the UK lacking in math teaching? Engineering? Computer experts? When does the average person in the UK not gain the needed skills or fail to graduate?
The UK pushed a lot of advanced networked computer hardware and quality educational programming languages into all its schools, giving some computer access per student going back to the 1980's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Something other nations could not afford to do.
Thats generations of computer and math course work for most UK students other nations could never afford on average.
What did UK education system so lack every decade that very average poor nations workers now have skills to "bring" to the UK?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"