This article really doesn’t add anything new or helpful to the conversation. The message seems to be “chill, people, we have been doing okay and we still seem o

This article really doesn’t add anything new or helpful to the conversation. The message seems to be “chill, people, we have been doing okay and we still seem okay, so we will be okay”, the relevant paragraph being: > For all of the concerns of the press that there is a new brain drain in Silicon Valley, I think we can rest easy. Despite Palo Alto’s shabby look, lack of mobile payments, and lack of face-recognition software, America still has many, many desirable qualities. It’s safe and clean. Corruption is reasonably rare. Universities are still the best in the world. The bureaucracy around running a business is reasonably simple and well-trodden. Freedom of speech and expression is also strong. There is effectively no additional information or arguments to support that in fact all other references seem to contradict what the author is claiming. I don’t know whether or not brains are really being drained—but if I were doing business I would be wary of even the slightest possibility that sourcing talent may become increasingly difficult, Chinese or not.