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The US's Reverse Brain Drain
We may have to rethink the assumption that Silicon Valley is the hotbed of innovation in which all the world's best and brightest want to work and live. TechCrunch has a piece by an invited expert on the reverse brain drain already evident and growing in the US as Indian, Chinese, and European students and workers in the US plan to return home, or already have. From an extensive interview with Chinese and Indian workers who had already left: "We learned that these workers returned in their prime: the average age of the Indian returnees was 30 and the Chinese was 33. They were really well educated: 51% of the Chinese held masters degrees and 41% had PhDs. Among Indians, 66% held a masters and 12% had PhDs. These degrees were mostly in management, technology, and science. ... What propelled them to return home? Some 84% of the Chinese and 69% of the Indians cited professional opportunities. And while they make less money in absolute terms at home, most said their salaries brought a 'better quality of life' than what they had in the US. ... A return ticket home also put their career on steroids. About 10% of the Indians polled had held senior management jobs in the US. That number rose to 44% after they returned home. Among the Chinese, the number rose from 9% in the US to 36% in China."
Only if the States weren't the center of the universe.
I think it's awesome that our universities have a lot of foreign students. I don't think it's awesome that my tax dollars are paying for them to go there, so they can go back to their home countries and live the high lives while we foot the bill. Cut the number of foreign scholarships and grants in half, and increase the number of domestic grants and scholarships.
It's a great time to do it since there's so many people sitting around jobless.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
Remember, the US was largely built up by people who thought that making a buck was more important than staying close to family and friends.
Remember, the US was largely built up by people who thought that making a buck was more important than mooching off family and friends.
Just because you're a lazy bastard doesn't mean that people who are responsible and motivated are "evil".
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
I thought it was built by Micks, Krauts and Polacks. This here interweb sure is edumacational!
You could always outsource weapons production to China, problem solved.
And the number of people living in poverty in Scandinavia is greater than the entire population of Lichtenstein!
Read what I mean, not what I wrote.
I live in a basement, is that close enough?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Maybe you didn't get the memo, but Jesus is returning in 2012 so all your fancy-pants science tricks won't matter soon anyway.
Are agnostics skeptical of unicorns too?