Posted by alexandra_k on September 22, 2018, at 23:17:36
In reply to Re: Partlycloudy, posted by alexandra_k on September 22, 2018, at 23:08:28
i guess it is because of where it is geographically in the world.
i read something (reputable) about how we like to look at china and india and so on and call them 'developing' and proclaim outself 'developed'. only, china and india and so on have been (dodgey stats, probably, but lets's see them) doing significantly better than us.
they are more developed than we are.
this country really has been going backwards / downhill.
there is stuff on 'brain drain' from developing to developed. the idea is that the developing invests in training to try and have a skilled workforce but the people take their training and bugger off to the already developed nations and work there.
our solution to the 'brain drain' was not to figure out how to have our skilled workforce contribute more to making this place better for us all. rather, our solution to the 'brain drain' was to stop training our people to become skilled. that way no other country will want them and they will be forced to say here - you see? only... now we don't have people with skills for medicine or law or engineering... actuary science... finance... all kinds of things... we just don't have.
we have become, basically, a detention facility off the coast of australia. a holding pen for people trying to come out of india or china or wherever. tracking / surveillance is such a big deal here because the US, Australia, Canada, the UK can collect all the data it needs on whether the skilled professionals really are... Professional. Or whether they will be forever doomed to join the ruling classes here... To rule the commons...
I'm frustrated because I am sick and f*ck*ng tired of being kicked at here, by these awful people in charge of the lowest levels who will not let me get started on anything...
I'd rather be dead than join them. That's not depression... That's...
Dignity.
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