I find it quite sad how so many capable people leave their motherland because of lack of opportunities. The rich countries keep getting the best people from countries worse off, it seems like a vicious cycle.
Spoken with the confidence (and arrogance?) of someone that's not aware of how rich countries help to create the problems that cause young people to flee their homelands.
Isn't the current inflation and investment issues in Turkey caused by Erdogan? He remains in power by blaming "the west" without providing details and using nationalism to gain votes [1]. He then also gets votes by pandering to conservative Muslims.[2][3].
It's similar to what's going on in the US
[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/13/erdogan-blames-turkeys-curre...
[2]https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14683857.2019.1...
Why would Germans feel sad about software developers (listed as shortage occupation in Germany) and other educated/experienced mid-class workers moving in to Germany, getting things done and paying taxes?
A major industry moved to my local area about 30 years ago. It radically transformed a unique area into an Anywhere, USA suburbia, with tons of people coming (and going) from all over the country (and some other countries.)
Nothing is the same anymore, and most of it is objectively worse - much higher crime, for example. The tight-knit high trust community is completely gone. A lot of local culture is gone.
But there's higher tax receipts and the roads have more lanes, so uh, there's that.