https://www.wired.com/story/i-saw-the-face-of-god-in-a-tsmc-factory/

I had discharged my insomniac unease by looping through iOS games while perseverating on Putin, Xi, MAGA Republicans, and the rest of the nihilistic flexers with malevolent designs on democracy.

Xi, famous nihilist

  • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah I’ve been learning more about Puerto Rico and this is a problem. They get educated in the island but because of the exploitation there’s huge brain drain. Of course that makes it very profitable for the US because it means they can swoop it up and “modernize” the country for rich, mainland yanks meanwhile they enjoy Puerto Ricans’ labor

    I believe east Germany also experienced this. They had superior education but the west offered much higher salaries

    • OgdenTO [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Philippines is brain drain city. They rely on remittance for a sigfbicant portion of their national income

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, that's why you always get those articles where some engineer says "the unification was great, you just had to be flexible and open to opportunity" and then 3 paragraphs down they got their education in the east but fled to Stuttgart in 1992 for the pay and never went back.

      Not that I'd wish Stuttgart on anyone.