Should people really have to swim upstream all their lives in societies they don’t want to be in?
As an emigrant, and the owner of a brain, I find that idea abhorrent.
I see many famous athletes who go to their hometown in America and invest in under developed neighborhoods they grew up in, and see that as a model for investing in communities on a global level.
It seems better than taking the best talent and allowing the cycle of poverty to continue.
Why is extracting talented humans from the developing world good for the developing world?
But those athletes became famous and successful precisely because they were allowed to leave and pursue their dreams - had they been stuck in their hometowns they wouldn't have achieved anything of the same caliber. If it's okay to leave your hometown, why isn't it okay to leave your home country?
The notion that people are beholden to the country they're born in is absolutely braindead. You're basically saying that a person born in a gutter should stay in that gutter because the gutter might benefit from it.
And there’s another dimension: what if the source country didn’t welcome the emigré? Should someone be forced to contribute to a society if they are not wanted?
I was surplus to requirements in my birth country so I left. Others I know left their birth nations for the new world because they are gay or atheist or a minority and didn’t feel welcome.
Talented or not, these people should be able to apply to move where they want to go.