Given the choice, I would move also. No reason for any of the US top intellectuals to stay here.
I am not a prof, I had a similar opportunity 40 years ago, but it was a different time back then. Now, I would have jumped.
I am not a prof, I had a similar opportunity 40 years ago, but it was a different time back then. Now, I would have jumped.
Depending on who you ask, the US is still the only country to have freedom of speech and the right to bear arms against a tyrannical government, which might be appealing for some of the top intellectuals (mostly Y Combinator founders, I think?)
I question the intellectual capacity of anyone who actually buys into this mythology.
Especially given the number of countries - presumably without freedom of speech or a right to bear arms - which have been far more successful at dealing with tyrannical governments than the US.
Sure, they can spend the next few years filling the top ranks with loyalists but that doesn't mean anyone will follow their unlawful orders because in the military it is a crime to follow an order you know to be unlawful.
Even in Japan, where the gun laws are so onerous even the Yakuza supposedly avoid dealing with them, that guy managed to build his own and shoot Abe Shinzo.
Meanwhile in the US that tree of liberty they love to go on about is getting real thirsty.