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Brain drain steals the smartest workers from poor nations

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Developing countries spend millions educating their brightest professors and scientists, only for wealthy western nations to immediately poach them with better salaries. It is an incredibly efficient system for ensuring that struggling regions permanently underwrite the success of rich ones.

Brain drain steals the smartest workers from poor nations
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