> if everyone with those qualities leaves the community, the rest of the people are helpless and will be mired in poverty forever... In any case, I think this s

> if everyone with those qualities leaves the community, the rest of the people are helpless and will be mired in poverty forever... In any case, I think this sort of thing is a significant reason why countries don't develop. Change always starts from a small group of changemakers - if those people all just emigrate, nothing will ever change. Third world countries don't develop not because of brain drain but because of systemic corruption and protection of domestic uncompetitive/unproductive interests. The political leaders of these countries exploit their citizens as members of governments without proper controls to prevent such exploitation from happening. The citizens of these third-world governments are victims of governments which do not serve their interests. Shifting blame onto enterprising people whose ambitions lie in their chosen profession and not in politics is guilty of blaming the victim and argues against his right of individual agency.