• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Did we learn nothing from 2015?

    Stop the brain drain from countries that needs their educated people at home.

    This is just white savior crap with the added effect of causing developing nations to take longer to develop.

    I strongly believe that to improve a country you need educated citizens, we should absolutely help developing nations with offering free/reduced cost education to citizens of developing countries so they get an educated workforce with a strong network of connections that will aid cooperation and development.

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      2 days ago

      Most developing countries don’t have a brain drain problem but a capital problem. Remittances from people that moved abroad are a strong factor helping with that and are bigger than the official development assistance for example.

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        2 days ago

        That is a good point I had not considered.

        If there is not a brain drain issue then I will concede that my point is not valid.

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      2 days ago

      That’s the crux with developing countries. If a citizen can make 20x their salary somewhere else why wouldn’t they?

      Should we block people from emigrating? Is limiting their freedom good for us/them?

      It’s a tricky question because like you say in the long term their home country would most likely benefit from them staying.

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        2 days ago

        There is a way to deal with it.

        Have the country pay for the education abroad, but have the person be required to work 10 years in the country to recieve their diploma.

        After that they are welcome to move as they please.

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      2 days ago

      Stop being a snowflake, if you’re too cucked to avoid being replaced by a brown person that’s strong beta vibes I‘m sensing and that sounds like a you problem.

      Hope I got the language right. In all seriousness though the whole 2015 migration trope was a right wing psy-op and you fell for it, congratulations. I live in Germany and the only thing I learned is that Syrians can cook much better than you whoever you are.

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      3 days ago

      I strongly believe that to improve a country you need educated citizens

      True, but you also need cooperative authorities willing to give their educated citizens the leeway to prosper. That’s the real bottleneck here; plenty of developing countries have accessible higher education. If you want the EU to help developing countries develop, you should start from neocolonialism. Many of the regimes holding back developing countries are basically running on foreign dollars and euros.

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        2 days ago

        True, but you also need cooperative authorities willing to give their educated citizens the leeway to prosper.

        Education is a precursor to that.

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          Again, that is already present in plenty of (unsure if most) developing countries, and the ones where it isn’t aren’t common sources of brain drain. There’s a reason the West tends to import Indians and Iranians rather than, say, Congolese; the majority of educated people from any country will stay there, either because they don’t want to leave or because they can’t find an opportunity to do so. This is simply not the bottleneck holding back the Global South; education is one of the few things a developing country can do more of with minimal effort.