Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 13:55:21 +0200
From: Mikael Bonnier <address utediterad>
To: addresser utediterade
Subject: Work immigration of physicists and astronomers to Sweden should
be stopped, except...
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Lund 2013-05-30
To originally work immigrant PhD-students:
Hi,
I think work immigration of physicists and astronomers to Sweden
should be stopped, except for experts above PhD-level that work
primarily with education, or if their work is fully funded by another
nation's taxpayers. I believe the salaries and equipment etc of the
PhD-students in Sweden are paid for by the Swedish taxpayers, e.g. me
(if this assumption is wrong, please inform me). I have a MSc in
physics from Lund University and have studied 37,5 points of
astronomy. If these PhD-positions hadn't been given to work immigrants
I could have had one, and my life would be much happier. I also think
I'm more talented in physics, astronomy, programming, mathematics and
related subjects than you are, and could give important contributions
to science if I was only given a chance. I'm however not an extreme
expert in any subject right now because I have to change jobs often
because I've not been given the same good chance that you have been
given to work in exactly the same field that I'm educated for.
I'm specially educated to do basic research in physics and astronomy
but now I'm not allowed to work within the field I'm educated for. I
started my education at the University in Lund in 1986 and the
opportunity for jobs looked good then because in those days work
immigration was not allowed and all PhD-positions paid for by Swedish
taxpayers was given to Swedes. I paid for my own education by taking
student loans. I have studied some courses part time after my main
education when I was working. Then my conditions for studying were not
that good. Lund University is one of the best in the world when it
comes to physics and the grading system when I started to study was
rather hard. I'm also very much a computer user and developer and in
the beginning you were not allowed to use computers on the
examinations.
It's not your fault that we have a bad immigration policy in Sweden,
but I just want you to know that you are not needed here and that
there are already people here that have greater talent within physics
etc than you have and that these people now work with other things
(against their will) or are unemployed because of you. I do think your
professors have been bad for the Swedish masters of science in physics
and astronomy. This will result in fewer Swedes wanting to educate
themselves for PhD-positions in physics and astronomy when they
discover that they can't get those jobs even though their families
paid their taxes for thousands of years and even built the university
buildings. When more people discover this their willingness to fund
basic research will decrease if Sweden is still a true democracy.
I have nothing against cooperating with foreign basic researchers who
are funded by their own countries taxpayers.
I think it's especially wrong if Swedish taxpayers have to pay to
educate PhD-students that doesn't even speak Swedish fluently, because
these people cannot give back to the Swedish society equally well as
those who can.
As the situation is now, were we have to pay for the higher education
of foreigners that probably wouldn't support our nation in crisis, and
we ourselves are not allowed to participate in interesting research, I
think it's better to stop all government funding of university
research in Sweden. That way we could lower the taxes drastically and
people would have money to fund their own research institutes for
basic research.
I would like to know what you think about this suggestion. I think I
know how you will respond.
I have a non-Swedish last name (French in my case) but I'm 98% Swede.
My great great ... grand father arrived in Sweden about 1400. He was a
master of metallurgy. Of course he was also a work immigrant but in
those days no one could make better steel than those from the same
region. Also they were fully educated and educated Swedes in making
the best of natural resources. I don't think the same reasoning
applies to you because you doesn't have knowledge that a lot of
unemployed or wrongly employed Swedes doesn't have today.
If we are going to have work immigration it must be thoroughly
investigated that we don't already have people within the country that
are wanting and are reasonably qualified for those jobs. I don't think
a Swede must be exactly qualified for a job paid for by the Swedish
taxpayers because adults can also learn. If I don't know about some
theory I could learn it because I'm a physicist.
When I work I pay taxes so that you can have your dream work. It is a
great sacrifice I do, but I don't want to sacrifice my life for yours
because you don't deserve it. I have paid so much taxes I could have
financed my own PhD-education many times over if I didn't have to pay
those high taxes to you.
Here is my CV:
<http://www.df.lth.se/~mikaelb/cv/cvmikaelb-sve.html>.
Regards,
// Mikael Bonnier
