Making everywhere else, great again.
Brain drain is a difficult downward spiral to break out of once it starts.
This is something I think a lot of people don’t realize; It’s a cascading failure. It’s not just that some competent people will leave the country. The rest of their teams will have to bear the extra burden and be demoralized. They will then feel compelled to leave as well.
It’s happened numerous times in both the public and private sectors. Now they’re deliberately trying to do this shit on a national scale. If we ever recover from this, it’s going to take decades…
anecdotally, I know people finishing their phds that have jobs lined up elsewhere in the world because there are no federal science job openings
the brain drain is real and self-imposed
we’ll just get chatgpt to invent new science for us
The times, they are a’changing
Death to IMPERIALISM
Death to CAPITALISM
Death to FASCISM
Death to MAGA
What’s the term when a country has a brain drain but caused by itself?
brain dump?
This is good actually, because it will reduce the brain drain of other countries. Critical support for JDPON Don.
I’ve figured this out. If MAGA gets rid of all the smart people, they won’t seem as dumb anymore!
Critical support for Trump’s struggle against US cultural and scientific imperialism.
Keep on winning, America!
Deeply unserious managers of empire continue to self-cannibalize their own productivity in an effort to go even more all-in on financial capital, all while the global south is doing its best to pivot towards more favorable relations with countries like China. When the US Empire runs out of countries to exploit, and financial capital ceases to be profitable, it will have no developed industrial base nor a strong scientifically trained worker base to pull itself back up. The US is cooked, this is just speedrunning the demise of the empire in a faster and harder fashion.
The good news is that the worse this gets, the more favorable the conditions for organizing become, and the more vulnerable to revolution the state becomes. We can legitimately take advantage of this, and gain mastery over capital, rather than the inverse. We can re-industrialize, become socialist, and begin the long and difficult but necessary path towards legitimate progress. It won’t be easy, but it will be doable.
Speed running towards Idiocracy by 2028
Never played a conquest game where you stop researchers from giving your empire a tech advantage over others.
Narrator: It did not.
It’s a popular strategy for Fascists.
the Nazis and the OG Fascists did it, and so did the communist Chinese.
China currently churns out more college graduates than any other country, and the rate is increasing.
And they had a hell of a way to go given that it was less than 1% when they took over.
China currently is not communist either.
They stopped killing academics at around the same time they stopped being communist.
Incredible, more than 100% wrongness
