Brain drain and creeping authoritarianism in Russia’s techno-utopian village

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31 points·leoschwartz··6 comments

Is Brain Drain not a problem anywhere on the planet? Well, other than US that is obviously. At least in Canada new cycle seems to circle back to how we are subsidizing industries in the US with our young professionals who are educated here but chose to relocate to the US for far better pay at least once every three months.

There is no fix for brain drain. So long as US is awash in cash and can pay 2-3x what anybody else can pay there will always be people moving there for work from everywhere in the world.

Exit Visas like the old USSR, or tax them even if they live and work outside the country like we do!

I’m joking but short of shoring up you own industry or letting it happen more, what’s there to do?

China actually has the solution to this which is simply dont allow international companies inside your country (even digitally).

> At least in Canada new cycle seems to circle back to how we are subsidizing industries in the US with our young professionals who are educated here but chose to relocate to the US for far better pay at least once every three months.

Why not just... compete? Sounds like they are relocating for a reason.

> Why not just... compete?

It's a different world over here. The industry is far smaller, far less demand, far less funding, far fewer success stories. As the result there is no crazy competition for professionals and therefore wages are considerably lower than in the US.

Innopolis seems to have official websites here https://innopolis.ru and here https://sezinnopolis.ru

It's in Russian, but Google Translate works nicely on the sites.

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