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Except the rich and educated Indians and Chinese want to move to the US. India and China having 4x the US’s population doesn’t mean anything if the top 5-10 pr
by rhaway84773 3y ago
Except the rich and educated Indians and Chinese want to move to the US.
India and China having 4x the US’s population doesn’t mean anything if the top 5-10 productive percentile of their population emigrate to the US.
Further, unlike India and China which literally share a contested border, the U.S. is surrounded by extremely friendly nations and 2 oceans.
Further, the US has a 200+ year history of a relatively stable democracy whereas India is currently turning into whatever clown show Modi is trying to turn it into, and Xi Jinping has turned China into the kind of autocracy where he is telling highly educated Chinese that they should go back to their villages and try their hand at subsistence farming.
I would have thought the last 6 months of Chinese collapse, which should have been a post Zero COVID era of epic growth would have disabused people of the notion that people automatically means growth and success. China is currently beyond their demographic dividend and is now in the payback stage, having f’ed their demographics massively with their 1 child policy.
India is in the peak of their demographic dividend but instead of utilizing it to productive ends is engaged in the promotion of religious infighting and autocratic tendencies all to satisfy the power lust of 1 man and his lackeys.
- klyrs 3y ago> India and China having 4x the US’s population doesn’t mean anything if the top 5-10 productive percentile of their population emigrate to the US. The richest, in India, China, and the US are not the "most productive" by any means. They're the most extractive. If we were immigrating hard workers, we wouldn't have labor shortages. Instead, we're immigrating investors who drive up real estate costs.