Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Gravitas Plus: The Great Indian Brain Drain" video.

  1. Your right how important this topic is. I'm Australian (and an aerospace engineer) and we have had our version of the brain drain going on for decades now. So its really interesting to here another person talk about the same issue from their perspective. One of the things that drives Australian scientists and particularly engineers overseas is the abundance of Indian Engineers available to come here and work for what they see as a good wage but is in fact a low wage by our standards. I have actually lost work to cheap Indian labor coming here. It was prevalent circa 2010 when our visa system was being abused by our mining companies. Its one of the UGLY, UGLY, UGLY consequences of what's now labelled neo-liberal economics. That's the stuff that started as Thatcherism and Reaganomics and was pushed by clowns like Bill Clinton and all his banking friends. In neo-liberal economics labor is a commodity to be bought and sold openly. For anyone interested go and look up Prof, Mark Blyth. He's a Scotsman based in America at Brown University and he works in "political economics." Its a field of study where they do NOT treat politics and economics as separate concepts but consider them as intertwined systems. So the whole concept of labor and how its being traded and how that affects politics and economies is of interest to these political economists. And for anyone wondering the rest of the economics people in industry HATE THEM for the simple reason people like Mark Blyth aren't simply exposing their BS they are explaining their BS so people can UNDERSTAND that their BS really is BS. On the huge downside of this the part where Palki is talking about the cost to Indian growth its even worse for countries even less developed in places like Africa. Every engineer, doctor, teacher, nurse, electrician, welder, plumber who leaves for the Western World is incredibly damaging. Look at the mass migration from undeveloped nations. Why are they undeveloped? Could it be that more developed countries keep taking their talent and ability to develop.
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