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    7 hours ago

    That’s kinda obvious though, isn’t it? I don’t think many people are choosing to move to the USA nowadays. And the ones that already live there can’t really just move out - either due to family ties, bureaucracy or lack of resources to do so. I’m guessing that the last one is the biggest factor.

    America seems pretty big on making their citizens under-educated and deeply indebted. Most other countries don’t let you migrate into them unless you can prove that you’re financially stable and can hold down employment. My parents moved from Russia to Germany about 20 years ago, and that was only possible because they were highly educated and the company that my father was brought in to work for could prove that literally no other candidate in Europe could do the job.

    Now imagine you’re an american kid, either fresh out of college with a ton of debt or never having done college with no proof of education. Either way, there’s a good chance your only previous employment was in the gig economy. The chance that any other country would happily let you move in is pretty slim…