hyperberion said in #5613 18h ago:
Been spending lot of time around X and talking to friends and colleagues irl recently and one thing that strikes me is that with the exception of the US post 2024, lots of ambitious young men are thinking of leaving their home countries if they wish to have a successful business career. I'll focus on business here and not joining a political movement since the people I've seen and talked to about it have various political opinions.
To break it down:
-> Western Europeans want to leave to the US if they want to work in Tech/Finance, Australia if in commodity sector or more manual. In the past 20y there was an exodus of French talent as well to the UK & Canada. London for instance had a reputation for higher salaries and better quality of life than Western Europe.
-> Now Brits want to get out too, as the only real consequence of Brexit has been opening the floodgates for immigrants and follow the EU in its green suicide as well.
-> New Zealanders and Australians are also suffering under the yoke of gerontocracy in their respective countries.
-> US recent job numbers show all the positions are going to women and immigrants even under a Trump administration
For those that currently work in the west and even more so in Europe it's a gruelling path ahead where every new dollar earned is cut in half by taxes for old people and foreigners.
So my question is where do we go? Certain cities in Asia are attractive, such as Singapore, Hong Kong or even Shanghai but that would just mean becoming a diaspora under the constant threat of visa renewals and locked from our home countries. Where can an ambitious you man build a business, succeed and earn enough money to get ahead? Even for political reasons, the right needs an international network of funding, one that can take over from Musk or Thiel and go where they cannot.
To break it down:
-> Western Europeans want to leave to the US if they want to work in Tech/Finance, Australia if in commodity sector or more manual. In the past 20y there was an exodus of French talent as well to the UK & Canada. London for instance had a reputation for higher salaries and better quality of life than Western Europe.
-> Now Brits want to get out too, as the only real consequence of Brexit has been opening the floodgates for immigrants and follow the EU in its green suicide as well.
-> New Zealanders and Australians are also suffering under the yoke of gerontocracy in their respective countries.
-> US recent job numbers show all the positions are going to women and immigrants even under a Trump administration
For those that currently work in the west and even more so in Europe it's a gruelling path ahead where every new dollar earned is cut in half by taxes for old people and foreigners.
So my question is where do we go? Certain cities in Asia are attractive, such as Singapore, Hong Kong or even Shanghai but that would just mean becoming a diaspora under the constant threat of visa renewals and locked from our home countries. Where can an ambitious you man build a business, succeed and earn enough money to get ahead? Even for political reasons, the right needs an international network of funding, one that can take over from Musk or Thiel and go where they cannot.
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