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David Heinemeier Hansson

What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about immigration

@dhh · 154 positions · 10 changes of mind

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  1. Our readingCountries have a right to set their own immigration policy, and the assumption that people can be moved between countries with no consequence is empirically false.

    Their wordsCountries and peoples have a right to set an immigration policy, and this notion that we shouldn't have any borders or, or even worse than that, it's all just a blank slate, that all peoples are just the same, and we can take people from one place of the earth and we can place them in another place on the earth and everything's just gonna work out hunky-dory. Empirically not true.

    ↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 36th of 41 in this recording

    Interesting

  3. Our readingA country benefits from immigration in proportion to whether the people arriving are net contributors who assimilate.

    Their wordsImmigration depends greatly on who immigrates. And a country benefits when the people who immigrate are net contributors to the society, and in most cases, that they assimilate with the local culture.

    ↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 37th of 41 in this recording

    Interesting