<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CamperBob2</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Then Eric Schmidt says: &amp;gt; I would prefer Omid do it verbally since I don&amp;#x27;t want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;How does someone this stupid rise to such a high position of wealth and influence?  Are we talking luck here, or are Faustian bargains involved?  Where do &lt;i&gt;I&lt;/i&gt; get some of that action?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m only being half-facetious; this is &lt;i&gt;weapons&lt;/i&gt; grade stupid.  &amp;quot;Let&amp;#x27;s take this conversation offline because we&amp;#x27;ll get sued or indicted if it gets out.&amp;quot;  Yeah, that will &lt;i&gt;totally&lt;/i&gt; work in a grand jury room.&lt;p&gt;If low IQ isn&amp;#x27;t the explanation, and I don&amp;#x27;t see how it could be -- given the respect and reputation we all accord Eric Schmidt for his other achievements -- what is?  Drugs?  Mental illness?  Distraction?  Forgery?  Did he fail a saving throw versus reality distortion on one of his walks on the beach with Jobs?  What?</text><parent_chain><item><author>firstOrder</author><text>&amp;gt; Meg called to talk about our hiring practices.  Here is what she said.  Google is the talk of the valley because we are driving salaries up across the board.
Then Eric Schmidt says:
&amp;gt; I would prefer Omid do it verbally since I don&amp;#x27;t want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later&lt;p&gt;So Silicon Valley execs were illegally conspiring to drive down wages, and who knows how much more was done outside of the paper trail mentioned.&lt;p&gt;Then we have an article discussion yesterday and blog posts etc. in the past few weeks about how companies can&amp;#x27;t find great engineers, and how we need immigration law changes that blocks Mexicans etc. but brings in more engineers to drive down engineer wages etc.&lt;p&gt;Maybe if CEO&amp;#x27;s weren&amp;#x27;t illegally conspiring to drive wages below their market value, there wouldn&amp;#x27;t be a so-called &amp;quot;engineer shortage&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;I mean it&amp;#x27;s risible.  They conspire illegally to drive down wages, then whine that not enough people want to work in this field where wages have been artificially and illegally deflated.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not To Hire Apple Workers</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/emails-eric-schmidt-sergey-brin-hiring-apple-2014-3?utm_content=buffer7d246&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Vardhan</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s all propaganda. There&amp;#x27;s no engineering shortage. They&amp;#x27;re all just trying to flood the market with more engineers from all around the world.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s all propaganda plastered with a nice marmalade of feel goody &amp;quot;let&amp;#x27;s help the immigrants&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;everything great about our country came from immigrants&amp;quot;, or other such variants of rhetoric. It&amp;#x27;s actually very smart, because it plays to the tune that people dance to.&lt;p&gt;That said immigration policies do need to change, and immigration is indeed a good thing for this country. Attracting talent is a lot of what makes this country great, but we need to be careful with the fine print of such policies as to not destroy our own economy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>firstOrder</author><text>&amp;gt; Meg called to talk about our hiring practices.  Here is what she said.  Google is the talk of the valley because we are driving salaries up across the board.
Then Eric Schmidt says:
&amp;gt; I would prefer Omid do it verbally since I don&amp;#x27;t want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later&lt;p&gt;So Silicon Valley execs were illegally conspiring to drive down wages, and who knows how much more was done outside of the paper trail mentioned.&lt;p&gt;Then we have an article discussion yesterday and blog posts etc. in the past few weeks about how companies can&amp;#x27;t find great engineers, and how we need immigration law changes that blocks Mexicans etc. but brings in more engineers to drive down engineer wages etc.&lt;p&gt;Maybe if CEO&amp;#x27;s weren&amp;#x27;t illegally conspiring to drive wages below their market value, there wouldn&amp;#x27;t be a so-called &amp;quot;engineer shortage&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;I mean it&amp;#x27;s risible.  They conspire illegally to drive down wages, then whine that not enough people want to work in this field where wages have been artificially and illegally deflated.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not To Hire Apple Workers</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/emails-eric-schmidt-sergey-brin-hiring-apple-2014-3?utm_content=buffer7d246&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer</url></story>