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I don't disagree, getting smart and ambitious people to move to your country is a really good policy overall. It is just worth weighing it against the opportuni
by carom 2y ago
I don't disagree, getting smart and ambitious people to move to your country is a really good policy overall. It is just worth weighing it against the opportunity cost for the citizens of the country.
- the_real_cher 2y agodoesn't it beg the question though... if they're so good for America why aren't they good for their own country?
- echelon 2y agoThe value and commensurate compensation of talent depends on location. Proximity to colleagues, decision makers, and capital.
- the_real_cher 2y agoSomebody has to sacrifice to be the first to start something like that in their own country. In America we built companies art and music out of our garages just for the love of it... not because "that's where the compensation was."
- t43562 2y agoYou guys move around for opportunity all the time.
- the_real_cher 2y agoSome not most
- pacerier 2y agoI think you meant all. All moves when disaster comes. Meanwhile where there is food there is no need to move.
- the_real_cher 2y agosome people are farmers
- pacerier 2y agoFarmers move too when disaster comes. You are out of job, out of food, you move. Meanwhile where there is food there is no need to move.
- pacerier 2y agoWhat are you talking about? Is this fact or romance? The country certainly did not become what it is through love of sacrifice.
- asimpletune 2y agoIt makes sense for big fish to seek big ponds
- the_real_cher 2y agoIndia and China arent big ponds?
- pacerier 2y agoMany pockets of the pond are not yet deep, making it unsuitable for many species.
- foldr 2y agoThey are. When a doctor immigrates from Nigeria to the US, then that's broadly speaking good for the US and bad for Nigeria.
- the_real_cher 2y agois it though...
- foldr 2y agoBoth countries have a shortage of doctors, so yes.
- pacerier 2y agoThat's not how it works. It depends on whether (how much) they are paid and if so what do they buy with that payment. Are they settled in US buying pizzas and Netflix? Because if not, then investments to Nigeria past $x will grant it the upperhand since all that money can get you another doctor and more.
- foldr 2y agohttps://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p1234 https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p1234
- pacerier 2y ago5 years is truly a big kill. looks like its a reaction to 99% of them refusing to send money back home and invest in Nigeria, preferring to buy-US and -Europe.
- foldr 2y agoNot sure if you are deliberately misunderstanding at this point, but the problem is obviously not where the doctors spend their money, but the fact that they are not practicing medicine in Nigeria – as Nigeria might reasonably have hoped them to do once they completed their training.
- jyounker 2y agoWhen they leave their country it's called Brain Drain.
- shiroiushi 2y agoBecause their country doesn't offer the same opportunities to achieve the things they believe they can in their new country. It's the main reason people emigrate. No one's going to build Nvidia in India or China, for instance, at least not back in the time that it was created in America.
- the_real_cher 2y agoAmerica didn't used to be the country that offered those opportunities. Yet people built it and made it that way. Nothing is static people csn change anything These people need to do that in their own countries.
- shiroiushi 2y agoThe people that built it and made it that way in America were all immigrants.
- the_real_cher 2y agoI didn't know Bell labs employees Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were all immigrants
- ivewonyoung 2y agoSteve Jobs' father and grandparents were Syrian.
- decremental 2y ago[dead]
- surgical_fire 2y agoKind of ironic, considering the whole original population of America (the whole continent) was mostly replaced by immigrants, starting some time after 1492 AD.
- pacerier 2y agoBut they are. Yet men being men will go where they think the money/food is.
- pacerier 2y agoWhat opportunity cost? Expensive healthcare? Expensive housing? Hey pal, why not everything else under the sun? Immigrants have made the country rich enough to give everyone ubi free housing and free healthcare. But Then Billionaires. #immigrants-are-the-new-jews #stop-blaming-the-hand-that-feeds ( Of course, it's not billionaires per se, but Greed. Eg in countries like singapore, the Politicians are the problem. ) For a living example, take a look at UAE, although I'd say they could have treated immigrants a bit better.
- indoordin0saur 2y agoOne thing I seldom see discussed is how if you're attracting the best and brightest it is leaving the original country poor. These places invest in their children hoping that they'll start businesses and then all that investment just ends up going to those countries that are already the richest. I certainly don't blame anyone for wanting to move to improve their situation (I did it too!) but I wonder if developing countries would have caught up to the West decades ago if this brain drain wasn't going on.