Scaring Away The Goose

The Independent:

For a nation that invented the term "guest worker" for its immigrant labourers, Germany is facing the sobering fact that record numbers of its own often highly-qualified citizens are fleeing the country to work abroad in the biggest mass exodus for 60 years.

This statistic is incredible:

OECD figures show that Germany is near the top of a league of industrial nations experiencing a brain drain which for the first time since the 1950s now exceeds the number of immigrants.

That's what happens with consistent soak-the-rich policies--the rich get fed up, pack up and leave.

Comments

[David Boxenhorn]

These people aren't rich. They just want to be.

[Saul Wall]

All the rich already left so the soak-the-rich policies turned on the next level of income earners. Eventually they will soak their way down to a fair and equal society where everyone (save a few elite administrators) is poor. The gap between the rich and poor will have been solved. At least, that is what happens when people do not wise up in time. Maybe Germany will turn things around in time.

[Trynn]

It's happening in Britain too, except here it's a middle-class-and-graduate-drain. When you tell students who have just spent up to five years being constantly short of money, leaving with several, several, thousand pounds of debt, and without a significant chance of a great job offer seeing as how the governments scheme to get more people in uni has led to a massive glut of people with bits of paper stating any degree title under the sun, that they have to pay a graduate tax in order to give back a more equal share of their potential earnings, because being a graduate means they will get a better paying job... people leave.

I'm going to.

[Isaac Schrödinger]

Trynn, if you don't mind me asking...have you decided upon the country you wish to move to?

[Trynn]

Not yet, I'm currently pursuing a degree in aerospace engineering, one of the few still worth something perhaps. After that, I'm not sure what I'll be wanting to do, but staying in Britain is becoming less of an option with every new proclamation by the government, and those parties not in government. America is a distinct possibility, as is Japan. Both have good prospects in aerospace, and particular the Space Program itself, which is where my ultimate hopes lie, whilst still having cultural and societal elements that make the country itself attractive.

Assuming both that overt hostility remains small scale in the world, and Britain doesn't need to be quarantined by then.

Best pineapple I ever had was in Tsukuba Space Centre.