Great, excellent point.
The old Ellis Island variety of immigrant, as well as many workers coming of age, was advancement-minded. He didn’t mind pushing the broom or flipping the burger, but it wasn’t his idea of a lifelong career.
An America that is great would have people advancing from humbly low to higher positions as a matter of course. I’ve already seen this process stultified in the tech world with H1Bs about which the employers don’t care if they ever advance, only that they can fill a skill set NOW. As a result guys like me, with an R&D mindset, are more and more fish out of water.
Yep, but hire the ones whose engrish is limited just enough so that they literally cannot become program managers and leave by stepping up the ladder.