Immigration, Brain Drain, and Colonialism
The most recent crybabying about the US suspension of immigrants from unstable countries is coming from companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft, according to a new Geekwire post: “President Trump’s actions on immigration during his first week in office are sending shock waves through the technology community, where immigrants comprise a big portion of the workforce.”
But isn’t it true that luring the best and brightest from poor or developing nations is the modern face of economic colonialism at its most exploitive? Talent should stay put and be incubated back home, where it is sorely needed, not siphoned off to design and manufacture toys and electronic baubles for the spoiled of the earth.
The US knows what this is all about. Thanks to the GI Bill, veterans returning from World War II were lured away to distant colleges and resettled into metropolitan areas, never to return to the rural communities where their leadership might have made a difference. The same socially engineered migration continues across America, as heartland talent is deceived into thinking that life is better in coastal cities, the places where our media programming, cultural identities, and government handouts emanate from.
Woe to the small American towns and Third world countries around the globe that need their “scientists, engineers, or other intellectual elites” (see below) to stay home and nourish entrepreneurialism from within. Instead, we end up with a global homogeneity that is bought at the expense of cultural identity. Roots, family, and heritage count for nothing in our modern greed-based world. The few examples of reverse brain drain become pure media hype.
Meanwhile, rich nations get wealthier, while the poorer nations must watch while their native resources are slowly pilfered away—to be replaced by cheap cellphones and other electronic gadgets which control more than liberate.
Historical colonialism actually liberated backward, stalemated cultures, but left the human capital intact. Whether to lure cheap laborers to European countries, or to drain the brains out of the Third World, human trafficking on any level is corrupt.
