Looks like the current Australian and Canadian governments (Harper) want to fall into the extraction-economy trap and giving incentive to clever people to move elsewhere. Sad.
It makes some twisted sense though: What's a good position to be in, if you're a ruler?
Answer: You don't have an educated populace that might displace you or call you on your BS, and you don't need one because your economy exists upon extracting natural resources and only doing basic processing on them before export.
It makes some twisted sense though: What's a good position to be in, if you're a ruler?
Answer: You don't have an educated populace that might displace you or call you on your BS, and you don't need one because your economy exists upon extracting natural resources and only doing basic processing on them before export.
See Saudi Arabia.