/gulag/ - gulag

Short sighted oligarchs in the US see no reason to replace the brain drain happening. The US will continue limping along losing doctors, engineers and other highly educated workers until no more wealth can be extracted short term and it collapses in on itself.

America has shot itself. But this is also a thing in western europe. Fewer foreign students. Fewer tourists. America asking people outside of America to provide biometric ID and several years of social media history is the final straw. Nobody has the right to call China obscenely authoritarian again.

The masses of Africans and Latinos trying to enter America can certainly make up for any loss in laborers caused by the drop in Asians, but EDUCATED ones(as in actually important stuff like engineering and medicine) is a different story. I'm pretty sure all the valuable educated ones are already entering America, so there isn't any "surplus" of them to fill this deficit. Basically, America is screwed long term because their education system is ass and mostly produces high school dropouts, financiers, lawyers, and other such useless-to-the-tech-race-against-China people.

How will the drop in students and workers coming from south asia and china affect american economy? Everybody knows not enough Americans study medicine to be able to fulfill the need for doctors in USA. How else will it affect usa? Could it end up being good for the global left in the long term if it leads to a chronic crisis and loss of faith in capitalism?