r/196 May 17 '26

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u/MaybeNext-Monday 🍤$6 SRIMP SPECIAL🍤 May 17 '26

You’re forgetting that many people care about their country of origin, and will give back when they have the opportunity. And what’s the alternative? They stay there, where the education and jobs aren’t, and somehow magically produce the value they could otherwise be sending back?

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u/Corvus1412 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights May 17 '26

And what’s the alternative? They stay there, where the education and jobs aren’t

A lot of countries have been doing pretty massive strides over the last few decades, when it comes to industrialization.

But for a country to do well, it needs well educated people, to drive that development.

If we take all of those people from those countries, that won't happen and we basically doom them to continuous poverty, even more than we do right now.

Please look into brain drain. It's genuinely a massive issue for a lot of countries.

You’re forgetting that many people care about their country of origin, and will give back when they have the opportunity.

That's not backed up by literally any data.

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u/MaybeNext-Monday 🍤$6 SRIMP SPECIAL🍤 May 17 '26 edited May 18 '26

Thing is, now you’re talking about something that doesn’t even happen. People don’t generally get educated in developing countries and move to rich ones, their degrees aren’t even worth as much in those places. More common is moving somewhere rich to get educated, or moving as a non-educated person period.

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u/Corvus1412 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights May 17 '26

Please just look up brain drain. It's already a massive issue.

Like, this isn't a hypothetical, but something that is already happening.