America isn't losing the people who can't make it work. It's losing the people who could, but chose not to. Engineers. Teachers. Nurses. Software developers. Small business owners. Skilled tradespeople. The exact people a functioning country needs to thrive. We're not leaving because we failed in America. We're leaving because we succeeded and still couldn't build a safe, stable life. I had a good career. A solid income. We owned property. We did everything "right." And we were still one medical emergency away from bankruptcy. Still sending our kids to schools with armed guards. Still working ourselves into the ground just to maintain "stability." That's not a system that rewards success. That's a system that extracts everything you have and calls it normal. So we left. And we're not the only ones. American policies are actively pushing out the families who have options. The remote workers. The entrepreneurs. The people with transferable skills and portable income. The ones who can leave are leaving. And what's left is a country that can't afford to lose them but refuses to give them a reason to stay. That's not sustainable. But it's not my problem to fix anymore. Link in bio if you're part of the brain drain too. 🆘🇺🇸
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You know who has the easiest time moving abroad, educated people. People with college degrees and advanced degrees have the easiest time finding ways to move out of the United States. And that's because visa programs encourage people with those degrees to find ways to come immigrate to their countries. There's all sorts of working visas and job-seeker visas that allow people who are highly educated to enter those countries even without a job. Additionally, educated people have an easier time finding jobs that will allow them to work remotely and then pay them enough so that they can self-sponsor to find remote work visas all around the world. These in addition to other factors is what's creating the brain drain. America is experiencing a massive loss of brain power. The brain drain is a huge problem because these people who were brought up in the American education system and went on to become highly educated. The future generations were kind of counting on those people to continue on with the progress of America. But when people realized that there is no progress happening in the United States and they dip out to these other countries, that's going to leave the United States in a lurch. It's going to leave you with the least educated among you just there fighting for survival and not having anybody who's highly trained in anything that is still willing to stick around and stay in that mess. While there are immediate effects of this brain drain, I think a lot of the effects will be long-term and they won't be realized until many years in the future. All of a sudden you'll look around and wonder why do we not have any engineers? Why do we not have any people who have advanced degrees to teach at college level? It's because they were sick of it and they dipped out to somewhere that would appreciate them, that would give them paid maternity leave, that would give them sick time, that would protect their rights, that would pay them a livable wage for the actual area that they live in. So next time you look around and you wonder why isn't anyone taking care of this, it's because of the brain drain. No one is there to take care of it because they left.
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