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> The moral issue is whether it is ok to take skilled people that have been trained using the limited resources of poorer areas of the world without supplying a
by gusmd 8y ago
> The moral issue is whether it is ok to take skilled people that have been trained using the limited resources of poorer areas of the world without supplying an equally skilled person in return.
The skilled people that have been trained using the limited resources of poorer areas have literally funded those limited resources through their taxes or by directly paying for their education (private schools are a thing everywhere, even in poor countries -- 1st-hand experience here).
Nobody has a moral obligation to stay in their home country when a much better quality of life is achievable elsewhere. The origin nation does not need to be to "satisfied". Humans should be free agents to defend their best interests and seek a better outcome for themselves and their families, wherever that may be (as long as the destination accepts them!).
- thedevindevops 8y ago> Nobody has a moral obligation to stay in their home country when a much better quality of life is achievable elsewhere. When using that model, is there any mechanism for the quality of life in their home country to ever improve?
- gusmd 8y agoI would like to believe so. But maybe there isn't, or his leaving makes it worse. My point, though, is that that burden shouldn't fall on the single individual, for his power to promote actual change is negligible. More anecdotally, I know in my home country it was a lost fight, as even among close friends and family, I found it hard to find a reflection of my own values. How could I hope to influence the other 200+ million people?
- neilwilson 8y agoTaxes haven’t funded anything since the end of the Gold Standard. That’s another framing myth that fails to look at the overall picture. Here’s Beardsley Ruml ex chair of the NY fed on the subject: http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/RUMLTAXES.html http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/RUMLTAXES.html Society funds things in real terms not in financial terms. To train more doctors there has to be less medical care available for a time to everybody. It’s the same investment problem faced by firms. Firms invest in training which is a real cost to their production, then other firms nick the staff. The result is that firms stop training. It a major dilemma at country level though because the get out of borrow to train yourself doesn’t exist there. There is no independent training country you can go to that only does training.