Why not open it to US nationals?

They don’t know that.

They are presumably building a KYC passport submission flow as we speak.

Fair, hoping for the best.

Feels like a scam.

I absolutely would do differently. Their behavior in public is gross.

Sure, everyone can be on their high horse from the comfort of their arm chair.

That’s insane. I hope they fix it.

Nothing to fix. This is working as designed.

Using codex for this use case is the fix.

They fixed it.

More likely whomever they’re consulting is protecting their own bags.

That’s an opinion from an economist along with prior behavior, not reality. I’ve talked to one of the guys who worked on the ACA, and his take was basically providers will do things like e.g. buy up all the cardiologists in an area, then jack up prices across the board. Employers need to provide a certain bundle of services under the ACA. That’s where people are taking advantage.

They’re locked into a red queen race. Providers merge to gain scale and negotiation power. Insurers merge to gain scale and negotiation power. The ACA encouraged scaling up to drive down unit costs, but it just resulted in companies scaling up to protect their margins.

Refugees is maybe more accurate when it comes to country. We sprouted out of the social scene that was displaced by the English Civil War.

And the wars of religion generally. Eg, the Dutch in Pennsylvania and hugenots.

What would you say to somebody who simply feels their quality of life has been lowered (vs. somebody “spouting essentially identical arguments”)?

I would need more details to understand what they mean by that

How is that relevant? From TFA:

> By early 2026 recent grads sat at 5.6% unemployment

Which seems very far from your numbers.

It's some actual BLS numbers from the same age range, instead of anecdote filtered through the algorithm of social media feeds.

Why would we go halfway around the world to create conflict when we could just make money somewhere where there is already conflict? Seems like a lot of extra work, no?