Sign "O" the Times

America’s increasingly-hostile business climate is sending more jobs offshore — right offshore, onto a ship to be anchored near Silicon Valley. Read:

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Some of the Silicon Valley’s most important companies, including Intel, Google, and Yahoo, were cofounded by immigrants. Yet America’s creaky immigration system makes it difficult for talented young people born outside of the United States to come to the Bay Area. There have been various proposals to make it easier for immigrant entrepreneurs to come to the United States, but they’ve made no progress in Congress.

So a new company called Blueseed is seeking to bypass the political process and solve the problem directly. Blueseed plans to buy a ship and turn it into a floating incubator anchored in international waters off the coast of California.

The story goes on:

Ars talked to Blueseed founder Max Marty. He acknowledged that it would be better for America to reform immigration laws and thereby make his company unnecessary.

Ya think?

Absurd notions like this become profitable business ventures, only when government becomes absurd. And we passed that point long ago.

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