Popular youtuber receives gold card -- criticisms, and my thoughts

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@supermario

One may argue that the Gold Card is designed to attract highly skilled foreign talent and isn’t meant to be for everyone, however, there is no doubt that a fully legal path to advance one’s career and becoming a highly skilled professional that the government wants is lacking due to the bureaucracy and legal restrictions in place, since you need the experience to be granted a work permit/gold card, yet can’t get experience unless you’re allowed to practice whatever craft legally.

This is a chicken and egg problem,

That’s one way to describe it. You may also be interested in this thread.