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Vivek Ramaswamy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4261 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

My main thesis in that chapter is, forget the demonization of illegal or legal immigrants or whatever, as you put it, right? Fear, mongering, just put all that to one side. I want an immigration system that is built on honesty. identify what the objective is. We could debate the objectives. We might have different opinions on the objectives.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

My main thesis in that chapter is, forget the demonization of illegal or legal immigrants or whatever, as you put it, right? Fear, mongering, just put all that to one side. I want an immigration system that is built on honesty. identify what the objective is. We could debate the objectives. We might have different opinions on the objectives.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

My main thesis in that chapter is, forget the demonization of illegal or legal immigrants or whatever, as you put it, right? Fear, mongering, just put all that to one side. I want an immigration system that is built on honesty. identify what the objective is. We could debate the objectives. We might have different opinions on the objectives.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

Some people may say the objective is the economic growth of the United States. I make that, I air that argument in this book. And I think that that's insufficient, personally. Personally, I think you need, the United States is more than just an economic zone. It is a country, it is a nation bound together by civic ideals.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

Some people may say the objective is the economic growth of the United States. I make that, I air that argument in this book. And I think that that's insufficient, personally. Personally, I think you need, the United States is more than just an economic zone. It is a country, it is a nation bound together by civic ideals.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

Some people may say the objective is the economic growth of the United States. I make that, I air that argument in this book. And I think that that's insufficient, personally. Personally, I think you need, the United States is more than just an economic zone. It is a country, it is a nation bound together by civic ideals.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

I think we need to screen not just for immigrants who are gonna make economic contributions, but those who speak our language, those who are able to assimilate, and those who share those civic ideals and know the US history even better than the average US citizen who's here. That's what I believe.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

I think we need to screen not just for immigrants who are gonna make economic contributions, but those who speak our language, those who are able to assimilate, and those who share those civic ideals and know the US history even better than the average US citizen who's here. That's what I believe.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

I think we need to screen not just for immigrants who are gonna make economic contributions, but those who speak our language, those who are able to assimilate, and those who share those civic ideals and know the US history even better than the average US citizen who's here. That's what I believe.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

But even if you disagree with me and say, no, no, no, the sole goal is economic production in the United States, then at least have an immigration system that's honest about that rather than one which claims to solve for that goal by bringing in people who are rewarded for being a refugee.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

But even if you disagree with me and say, no, no, no, the sole goal is economic production in the United States, then at least have an immigration system that's honest about that rather than one which claims to solve for that goal by bringing in people who are rewarded for being a refugee.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

But even if you disagree with me and say, no, no, no, the sole goal is economic production in the United States, then at least have an immigration system that's honest about that rather than one which claims to solve for that goal by bringing in people who are rewarded for being a refugee.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

We should reward the people in that model, which is, I don't even think should be the whole model, but even if that were your model, reward the people who are demonstrated, have demonstrably Proven that they would make economic contributions to the United States, not the people who have demonstrated that they're willing to lie to achieve a goal.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

We should reward the people in that model, which is, I don't even think should be the whole model, but even if that were your model, reward the people who are demonstrated, have demonstrably Proven that they would make economic contributions to the United States, not the people who have demonstrated that they're willing to lie to achieve a goal.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

We should reward the people in that model, which is, I don't even think should be the whole model, but even if that were your model, reward the people who are demonstrated, have demonstrably Proven that they would make economic contributions to the United States, not the people who have demonstrated that they're willing to lie to achieve a goal.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

And right now, our immigration system, if it rewards one quality over any other, there's one parameter that it rewards over any other. It isn't civic allegiance to the United States. It isn't fluency in English. It isn't the ability to make an economic contribution to this country.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

And right now, our immigration system, if it rewards one quality over any other, there's one parameter that it rewards over any other. It isn't civic allegiance to the United States. It isn't fluency in English. It isn't the ability to make an economic contribution to this country.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

And right now, our immigration system, if it rewards one quality over any other, there's one parameter that it rewards over any other. It isn't civic allegiance to the United States. It isn't fluency in English. It isn't the ability to make an economic contribution to this country.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

The number one attribute, human attribute that our immigration system rewards is whether or not you are willing to lie. And the people who are telling those lies about whether they're seeking asylum or not are the ones who are most likely to get in. And the people who are most unwilling to tell those lies are the ones who are actually not getting in.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#445 โ€“ Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

The number one attribute, human attribute that our immigration system rewards is whether or not you are willing to lie. And the people who are telling those lies about whether they're seeking asylum or not are the ones who are most likely to get in. And the people who are most unwilling to tell those lies are the ones who are actually not getting in.