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If anything, that is a call for better immigration, not better utilisation of those born in a country. Reasoning:

1. The US will not be able to compete w/ India or China when it comes to population

2. Most people with high ability are born outside of the US or any country statistically.

3. Importing the best and brightest is the surest way to continue growth.

The argument for immigration is that most 1st world countries do a great job of filling the middle 80% - most jobs in other words. We struggle at the top - as the top is hard to fulfill by definition - and the bottom, as most 1st world born don't want to, say, pick fruit.

To make sure 1st world economies continue to grow maximally, we need more of the very best, and more of those willing to do the sort of menial tasks we collectively simply don't want to.

Everyone wins from that. Those born in a 1st world country get to work at better run companies, and have their menial tasks fulfilled at a rate that keeps fruit cheap, and wait times low for things like fixing a broken door / getting a house painted.