Many saw his comments as endorsing replacement immigration for highly paid tech jobs (link).

What's your take?

Doug Casey: Unfortunately, he's mostly right about US workers. Their work ethic has been corrupted by cradle-to-grave benefits, class resentment, and a general degradation of Western values—something we've often discussed.

But importing Indians won't improve the culture, it'll further destroy what's left of American culture. Maintaining the culture, not a few low-level jobs is the main problem that we're facing. The culture is what makes America America. It's a belief in Western virtues and the cultivation of a high-trust society.

America is held together by common values and beliefs. Those things are not enforced by police but by peer pressure, moral opprobrium, and social approbation. Importing massive numbers of people from a radically different culture with radically different beliefs and habits will change the best things about America and could tear the social fabric.

I've been to over 150 countries, lived in ten, and read a lot of history. My view is that Western Civilization stands like a Colossus above any and all other civilizations. Here's the link to where I list them.

It's not just a question of some people losing their jobs. To start with, "jobs" don't belong to anybody. No one has a right to any job, certainly not by virtue of where he was born. That's apart from the probability that humanoid robots equipped with AI will eliminate most "jobs" over the next decade.

In the meantime, mass migration is a serious matter. Canada, for instance, is a country of 40 million people. But it's importing about a million and a half immigrants per year. Most of them are from the subcontinent, and it's completely changing the nature of the country. I've often joked that if you like real diversity, then Canada should import 50 million Third Worlders—most of whom are antagonistic to each other as well as the natives. This is what's going on today. Here's a link to a recent interview I did with Jayant Bhandari on this topic. I urge everyone now reading this to watch it.