> But solution point 1 — brain drain the rest of the world — is an absolutely first rate policy. The fact that the US requires newly-minted PhDs educated here to get a different visa or leave is absolutely self-defeating. We should be welcoming skilled immigration from everywhere.
Even better, let them keep their visa and if they revoke their citizenship, we'll relocate their entire family if they come from a repressive regime.
Brain-draining the world is really the key to cementing American Hegemony in a post-Cold War world. Additionally, we should be funding basic research at historic levels and incentivizing, via the tax code, corporations to productize and apply this basic research. We should be expanding the frontier of knowledge without regard to its immediate application.
Even better, let them keep their visa and if they revoke their citizenship, we'll relocate their entire family if they come from a repressive regime.
Brain-draining the world is really the key to cementing American Hegemony in a post-Cold War world. Additionally, we should be funding basic research at historic levels and incentivizing, via the tax code, corporations to productize and apply this basic research. We should be expanding the frontier of knowledge without regard to its immediate application.