> Frankly I don't care if I'm fairly displaced. That's meritocracy at work.

Right, The concept of a "meritocracy" only works if everyone is agreeing to the core tenets. If any group starts expressing in-group bias, then that group exponentially grows and will end up displacing all other, more meritocratic, groups.

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H1Bs visas allow for corporations to sidestep meritocracy because they can leverage the foreigner into 70 hour work weeks.

F1 visas allow for corporations to sidestep meritocracy because they get a five year exemption on some taxes for that employee.

etc for all the programs.