Comment by PittleyDunkin

Comment by PittleyDunkin 4 days ago

> That is no longer the case.

For all I shit relentlessly on this country and its culture, it's still an extremely attractive place to live if you're well-situated to make money. (Most people are not—hence my contempt for how the society functions. This presumably DOES apply to an "Einstein", if indeed this Einstein wants money.) China still has a way to go in catering to and granting citizenship (or some amenable equivalent) to foreigners.

cyberax 4 days ago

Going through the _legal_ immigration in the US is hell. Even if you're immigrating through a "talent" visa. Never mind regular work visa/GC.

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PittleyDunkin 4 days ago

Well, what's the alternative? Live in some poor country with a happy and contented existence? Fuck no, I want money: happiness is for suckers

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- johnnyanmac 4 days ago
  
  You have the metaphor backwards. Where do you go if you're a talented American and your own country continually does not want to pay for your talent? It's the brain drain out of the US to worry about, not the influx of immigration.
  
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  PittleyDunkin 4 days ago
  
  > Where do you go if you're a talented American and your own country continually does not want to pay for your talent?
  China is the only country that pays even remotely competitively. Yes, even including all the nice benefits of living in a european welfare state, yes including the other anglo colonies.
  
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  johnnyanmac 3 days ago
  
  Makes sense, it's just basic economy to pay for spent and get it. Something the US is continually giving up.
  Still, their culture basically does make it so certain types of people simply can't exist there. And I hear there's a healthy dose of racism as well. Nothing unique to China, sadly.
  
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- int_19h 2 days ago
  
  The alternative is to go to another first-world country that makes it easier. E.g. Canada or Australia.
  
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Gomer1800 4 days ago

You make a good point about China. It’s still an ethnostate, and I don’t see how it can reconcile such a strong ethnic nationalist identity with its own demographic crisis and competition for labor from abroad.

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johnnyanmac 4 days ago

>if you're well-situated to make money

so basically, like everything else, you make a lot of money but it isn't a great place to live unless you make ALL the money.

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