Companies aren't actually required by the law or regulation to hire "certain percentages" of people based on the ethnicity of the area where the company is located.

The reason companies collect ethnicity data, is so they can defend themselves legally if a person who is a member of a minority ethnic group, sues because they didn't get hired, or because they got disciplined, or because they got fired. With this data, companies can try to defend themselves by proving that they treat all minorities equally.

It's certainly true that government contracts often come with minority stipulations. But there are no such requirements in the private sector.

The law makes no such definition. "Qualified" is defined by the employer, for each specific case. I know this because I've personally been tasked with writing up the qualifications for hiring H1B employees.

You underestimate the skill with which businesses find ways to satisfy the letter of the law, and defend their practices in court.

Because modern journalism often misrepresents scientists statements in order to make more exciting headlines.

This time it was the scientists who were wrong. (Although it should be noted that these were Electrical Engineers not Population Scientists, and expertise in one field does not impart expertise in other fields -aka "not that kind of doctor".)

The rate of change is more important than the degree of change (up to a point).

Everything you said is a lie, fed to you by right-wing media to stoke your fears and paranoia so you will vote Republican no matter how much their policies hurt you.

Humans are not fungible. We may all be cogs in the machine to our corporate overlords, but you cannot simply swap a person into a different job. We have different skills and abilities.

Except that according to the summary above, that did not happen:

I did watch Shady Vance's speech, in which he accused Microsoft of laying off 9,000 American workers and replacing them with 6,000 H1Bs.... but like they say "How do you know when a politician is lying? His lips are moving." (especially true just before an election)

I do agree with cutting off the flow of H1Bs to the outsourcing companies (WIPRO, TATA, etc.). They have long manipulated the system.

As far as the University students, they announced a $70,000 per student annual fee for a work permit, up from the previous fee of $500. These are foreign students getting advanced degrees at US colleges. We want the best and brightest to come to America. If we educated them in our top universities, we should be trying to keep them in the USA, rather than sending them back to their homeland with their newly acquired knowledge & skills. These are the foreigners we want to stay and become Americans!

Making a note... Fluffernutter does not understand tyranny.

It was silly because it was a naive extrapolation that required breaking the laws of nature. It did not include an understanding of population dynamics, what impacts growth rates, or that babies take 9 months to come to term.

A simple calculation to get wrong, a hard one to get right. Naive extrapolations tend not to work well.

As someone else linked below: https://xkcd.com/605/

It didn't strike me as a brag. That it is neither the original author writing this piece, or even the same publication, discounts that theory. It does strike me as an artistic flourish. Neither necessary nor detrimental.

Permafrost now, super-rich farmland in your predicted future.

Neo-Malthusianism was popular at the time. This was 8 years before Ehrlich published "The Population Bomb", which was also wrong.

And are we not better off for it?

No, what was missed was that economic development and birthrates are inversely related. Thus, what you're saying is that Regan made the world better.

Another amusing point - now Senator Liz Warren once co-authored a book with her daughter that showed how the "women's lib" movement led directly to families not being able to afford having one parent stay home to raise the kids. Which makes sense from a supply and demand standpoint, as the labor supply basically doubled, crushing wage growth.