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It’s tragic so many of us have had to leave after 89. And I completely agree with you that this trend must be fought. However, I also think helping students ha
by dontlaugh 4y ago
It’s tragic so many of us have had to leave after 89. And I completely agree with you that this trend must be fought.
However, I also think helping students have better lives is good overall. Many of us come back later. Perhaps if in the future there is a political change back towards worker power, many more of us will come back. And we’ll have useful skills honed in the meantime.
- bitL 4y agoSo your students in some provincial eastern European university can barely get a C on an exam, trashing their GPAs in the process, closing life-long opportunities, because of the "only the professor deserves an A" attitude that then translates to reference letters and everywhere else. The same student then gets a 3.8+ GPA at a top 10 US university with glaring reviews of their work and 10x higher compensation the moment they decide to enter the industry. How are you going to stop the brain drain?
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- petre 4y agoNot really, they get good results in school but so so domestic employment opportunities. Even in IT we're basically a country where work is being outsourced. Nobody is going to stop the brain drain, unless Eastern Europe economies grow to become G7 members, which is highly unlikely.
- petre 4y agoPolitical change? You're too optimistic. And about worker power, Eastern Europe is going to have a South Asia workforce soon. I met a couple of nice Bangladeshis this weekend. They are working in my country. I choose to welcome them, as they probably get enough mistreatment and xenophobia at work.
- dontlaugh 4y agoPolitical change will happen as the global crisis intensifies. Whether it’ll be towards fascism or towards socialism, we’ll see. All workers can seize the means of production together, Eastern European and South Asian. It has happened before all over Eastern Europe, it can happen again.