Immigration

Nice analysis of Zuckerburg's new political organization.

"The plan, which was not published in full by Politico, was written by Facebook’s Joe Green, one of Zuckerberg’s Harvard roommates. It  sounds like a Stuart Smalley parody of Silicon Valley hubris:
“We control the avenues of distribution.”
“We have individuals with a lot of money.”
“Our voice carries a lot of weight because we are broadly popular with Americans.”
Well, maybe not if stuff like this keeps leaking out.
 The apology was swift: “Some of the information contained in this email is outdated and not representative of the kind of work this organization will perform,” Green told Politico in a statement. “Moreover, I regret some of the language in the email was poorly-chosen and could give a misimpression of the views and aspirations of this organization and those associated with it.”"

But here's the real issue:

"But it is especially passionate about a relatively tiny corner of immigration reform, increasing the number of H-1B visas for highly specialized foreign workers.
Here, on the www.FWD.us website, you can see the story of Ruchi, the Indian-born vice president of operations at Dropbox. Unlike PayPal founder Max Levchin, whose story about emigrating from the Soviet Union also appears on the site, she apparently doesn’t need the courtesy of a last name. (It’s Sanghvi, I discovered on LinkedIn.)
I have a hard time believing that the grassroots power Zuckerberg et al are trying to tap into will rally behind giving more visas to non-American workers, but you can’t blame Silicon Valley for putting its business interests first."

No kidding. This is a bunch of rich guys' - all recipients of unearned wealth thanks to government bans on innovation - first real foray into become plutocrats.