Today I lost my internship at Facebook for the summer

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by meagher • 7 years ago

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mlevental4• 7 years ago

there are several people in the comments saying things "american jobs for americans first". how much more spiteful can you be.

perl4ever2• 7 years ago

When I consider how much people hate Facebook, and my own sense that they don't really "do anything", it seems like there are an infinite number of better existing and potential enterprises someone could work for (or create). In that light, it seems churlish to focus on whether any benefits are distributed equitably. Maybe it's all garbage, so people should have the self-respect not to fight over it?

yfk• 7 years ago

You'd be surprised. A lot folks hopping between companies in SV are happy to throw away their values to work there for the money.

eridius2• 7 years ago

And of course the "americans" they're talking about are descended from immigrants themselves, because you can be sure they're not saying that the jobs should go to indigenous people.

deogeo2• 7 years ago

Is the logic that, because they are descended from immigrants, they are not allowed to put the interests of their own citizens first?

burfog3• 7 years ago

Pardon the sports analogy...

You're on a soccer team. You object to your teammates refusing to let the fans or the opposing team have a chance to kick the ball. You see this as being spiteful, since everybody should be able to share the experience of kicking the ball. Meanwhile, your teammates are muttering about how you are disloyal and really don't belong on the team. They want to succeed together, even if that means excluding the fans and the opposing team.

Being drafted by birth doesn't change the fact that your peers expect you to support the team. They want to win, as a team, without compromise.

George Washington didn't share ammunition with the British, even though it would have been a kind gesture. Was he spiteful for not sharing? How about Truman refusing to share nuclear weapons with the rest of the world?

kaesar14• 7 years ago

This is more like a professional soccer team objecting to someone far better coming into the team because it'll disrupt one of their roles and the team rallies around that individual. Loyal? Sure. Probably means the team is going to be worse in the long run for it.

jhayward2• 7 years ago

We are not at war with people going to college at Dartmouth, and we won't be nuking Dartmouth.

What kind of world view does it take to see everyone as the enemy?

mlevental4• 7 years ago

analogy doesn't fit because there's no analogy for immigrants in sports. if the kid lands a job at fb and immigrates permanently he increases the tax base. now you might say that he's taking a spot from an american but i thought america was a meritocracy? if this kid is better than all of the americans competing for that spot then so be it - the americans should work harder.

joejerryronnie• 7 years ago

If Americans want these high paying jobs then they need to suck it up and study hard core STEM subjects instead of “following their passion” into random fields that pay no money. None of these hiring companies care which country you’re from (in fact it’s probably cheaper to hire American citizens).

dang3• 7 years ago

I understand the feeling, but the site guidelines ask you not to reply to egregious comments (or comment on them at the top level, which is the same thing but worse). In other words: please don't feed the trolls. We've banned the account, but the damage that comment caused has now spilled over the entire thread.

If you flag the bad comment, that alerts moderators. In egregious cases, email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look at it sooner. But starting a new off-topic subthread about how shitty a shitty comment was merely makes the thread worse, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

mlevental4• 7 years ago

i wasn't talking about comments on hn - i was talking about comments on the linkedin post.

gringoDan• 7 years ago

Over the next couple of decades, policies and bureaucracy like this are going to lead to the US losing the massive lead it has worldwide with regards to entrepreneurship and wealth creation.

I've never understood why as a country we are willing to pay for the education of international students (through public universities), but then make it exceedingly difficult for many of them to stay in the country after school. These are highly-skilled people who want to work here, start companies here, and pay a huge amount of taxes here.

thrower123• 7 years ago

I'm sure Dartmouth will get right on it and get one of the eleventy billion diversity officers and assistant deans of such and such on the case, if they can be diverted from the urgent task of putting the crippled remains of the Greek system on double-secret probation for organizing a Cinco de Mayo or Kentucky Derby party.

Today I lost my internship at Facebook for the summer

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