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I'm not totally convinced by that – it's really easy to see that there could well be long-term positives. For example, what proportion of people who travel for

I'm not totally convinced by that – it's really easy to see that there could well be long-term positives. For example, what proportion of people who travel for work end up returning to their home country, bringing back skills which are beneficial domestically? I think we'd need to see some studies on that to draw any real conclusions, but your reaction seems too negative.

fennecfoxen 12y ago
There's also sort of an iron-curtain mentality emergent in telling people, "you can't come to the West to work on these tech jobs: your home country needs you to work on something you will probably find to be much less lucrative, technologically advanced, and fulfilling." People do not exist to be slaves exploited by their homeland any more than they exist to be slaves exploited by a colonial power.