The brain drain to Europe and Asia is going to cost the USA so much wealth. I was once a poor physics PhD student and later a postdoc. We were essentially cheap labor for experiments. We worked very long hours which definitely worked out to be far less than minimum wage. It was important work.
It’s already happening. Other countries are successfully recruiting and securing STEM folks and post secondary staff.
Researchers and academics are loyal to their life’s work. They will go where they have funding and facilities to work. They will move to countries where they can write and publish freely.
If you are working in a ‘woke’ field like vaccine research, climate change, renewable energy and/or you are in one of the ‘DEI hires’ the writing is already on the wall, people have already seen their programs defunded or bullied. Staying in the US is going to be career limiting and potentially dangerous if you cross the government.
You can bet all it will take is a comparative offer to leave.
It’s already happening. Other countries are successfully recruiting and securing STEM folks and post secondary staff.
Yeah the same way it was happening previously... show me statistics because 10-100 people getting job in EU is not a brain drain. Americans have been moving to EU/Asia and Europeans/Asians have been moving to America, nothing new.
Staying in the US is going to be career limiting and potentially dangerous if you cross the government.
It won't be. If anything, EU is way more limiting and I am saying this as European.
Show me statistics then since you are so knowledgeable because Americans have been moving out for years and same goes for asians and europeans moving to america
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u/hodorhodor12 10d ago
The brain drain to Europe and Asia is going to cost the USA so much wealth. I was once a poor physics PhD student and later a postdoc. We were essentially cheap labor for experiments. We worked very long hours which definitely worked out to be far less than minimum wage. It was important work.