Nah, the west can keep their degrees, what is likely to happen is eventually there wont be enough money going into financing universities and research projects and that will make westerners flee to other places like China.
That is already happening, tons and tons of people moving to China for academic research, easy money.
In the "good old days", we had loads of applicants from outside the US for academic research positions. Now most people I know who are finishing their PhDs or post-doc research are mostly applying to faculty positions abroad. Super cool trend that I'm sure in no way will impact the scientific community in the US :agony-yehaw:
Nah, the west can keep their degrees, what is likely to happen is eventually there wont be enough money going into financing universities and research projects and that will make westerners flee to other places like China.
That is already happening, tons and tons of people moving to China for academic research, easy money.
In the "good old days", we had loads of applicants from outside the US for academic research positions. Now most people I know who are finishing their PhDs or post-doc research are mostly applying to faculty positions abroad. Super cool trend that I'm sure in no way will impact the scientific community in the US :agony-yehaw:
I can't imagine having the opportunity to leave the US and wanting to stay for reasons other than the roots you've already put down.