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What happens in US is heartbreaking. For so many years the US was the place to go if you intend to invent the next stage of humanity and it wasn't like going to
by mrtksn 1y ago
What happens in US is heartbreaking. For so many years the US was the place to go if you intend to invent the next stage of humanity and it wasn't like going to a foreign country but instead US was like this magical place where everyone is welcome and everyone can become American if they have what it takes.
When the best and brightest of a county went to America it didn't feel like brain drain because whatever they do in the USA was about all the humanity. It was just this place where they invent the technology and the whole world benefits of it, so our tax money and resources weren't spent just to make US companies richer - that was a side effect. Even the aliens in the movies always arrived in US, always wanted to talk to the US president and whatever US did later was done for the whole humanity and all that felt right.
Why USA decided that they no longer want to be that place? It looks excruciatingly stupid to deny people who already got lots of investment on them to get some more investment on them in US and they cash out.
Is it possible that the decision makers believe that AI replacing human intelligence is just around the corner and they can cut off the actual intelligent people to reduce liability on race/nationality issues from MAGA supporters?
- gardenhedge 1y agoIt was never like that though. You could neve overstay your welcome/visa.
- Tadpole9181 1y agoLiterally nothing in their comment or the article relate to overstayed Visas.
- msgodel 1y agoI know outsiders view the US this way but there are many people (about half the population) for which this is our only place and don't necessarily want it to be strip mined for that. If you can understand this (and I know understanding politics for a foreign country can be very difficult. I've spent a lot of time learning to do this as a hobby) the behavior of the US electorate will be much more understandable.
- AlecSchueler 1y ago> don't necessarily want it to be strip mined for that. If you could explain what this means it would be a great help in trying to understand.
- busyant 1y agoI'm not the person who wrote that, but I think "strip mined" means that "MAGA" views foreigners (legal and illegal) as taking advantage of the US and depleting its resources. FWIW, I think there's a legitimate complaint that illegal immigration depletes our resources (but there are also positives). I have a friend who teaches at a high-school with a large population of 'undocumented' students and he's constantly railing about how they unfairly use school resources to the detriment of the other students. I think it's a much less legitimate complaint about legal immigration, visas, etc.
- tstrimple 1y agoThe "fuck you I have mine" mentality isn't a mystery to anyone. We know you're just selfish assholes who view denying others opportunities as a mechanism for maintaining your own feeble positions in society.
- msgodel 1y agoI don't know why everyone feels like they have a right to live in the US. I don't have a right to live in India, China, or Mexico. It's actually much harder to immigrate to those places than the US from what I hear. I know it looks like the whole country is just made up of corporations but there are actual people here who have lived here for hundreds of years. There's a whole country that needs to function and it only tolerates this stuff insofar as it benefits them which is a completely reasonable way for any citizenry to view their economy.
- thisisit 1y agoStrip mined for what exactly? There are two parts to this. People are feeling frustrated and left behind. Its not only the US. Its nearly everywhere. COVID certainly didn't help. That is what is giving rise to right and far right parties getting elected all over the world. This is not as hard to understand. But many people learning about US politics seem to confuse right wing incendiary rhetoric with what people want. People want solutions to the income divide. The easy solution presented by right wingers is that money, jobs etc is a limited resource and "outsiders are strip mining". Two entirely different things. What people need and how it is being achieved. The reality is rich people have always disdained the poor - "they don't work hard enough and don't deserve help". While people at least had that empathy for fellow underprivileged. But under constant bombardment about being "strip mined" they have slowly let that go. COVID certainly didn't help. And even then that is not unique to US. Nearly every country populace has something against immigrants. US is not unique in that aspect too. If America was passing a law to provide livable wages to its workers everyone would champion the cause. But I am sure many loud RWs will oppose that as "welfare society" and "not what people want" etc. But to many outsiders who grew up in the era of American exceptionalism this is a unique situation. The last place anyone expected this to happen is America and everyone will lament that.
- dyauspitr 1y agoBecause the current administration are short term, corrupt transactionalists primarily occupied with lining their pockets and trying to make the US racially homogenous/whiter.