For decades, the U.S. has attracted talented scientists from all over the world. That may be changing.
  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    Gross inherited wealth is the societal version of terminal cancer. It is the actual underlying problem that has gone unsolved. Intelligence is not hereditary in humans. No amount of money can replace meritocratic hierarchy at scale. As long as that issue goes unaddressed, this place will crash and burn. Anything beyond an upper middle-class trust for life must be forfeit. That one change eliminates every problem person you know by name.

    • foggy@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 hours ago

      I feel like all of the ways to actually effectively solve it are just wildly immoral, unpopular, or just too far from cultural norms to really ever happen. We’re cooked.

      Like an obvious way to deal with nepotism would be simply not allow people to parent children and make children property of the state.

      Now, when you’re an adult you can earn whatever in the meritocracy and build whatever kind of life you want, marry whomever, and have as many kids as you want. You’ll just never know those children.

      Problem… solved?

    • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      14·
      8 hours ago

      What’s worse to me is the idea of all the scientists who oppose this are now gone, so what kind of scientists are left in the US? It’s not just drain, it’s likely a hard rightward shift of disciplines within the country. Fascism loves a scientist without morals.

      • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
        11·
        8 hours ago

        We’ve already seen this in medical, with Dr Oz being promoted to a leadership position in the government. And now, since Measles has made a comeback, he’s floundering trying to get a pro-vaccine message out, since oh shit, it turns out traditional doctors who actually listened in med school instead of just paying professors off whilst doing bumps in the dorm room were actually right. Who’da thought?

  • azimir@lemmy.ml
    25·
    8 hours ago

    We started applying after Jan 6th. Once there was no real response holding those leading a violent coup to overthrow the nation, it was time to go. It took years, but away we are.

    The GOP has spent decades cancelling my grants and fucking with my career. The lastest round of cancellations this year is just a swansong and a final goodbye. Fuck em, I’ll teach engineers in Europe instead. Added bonuses: real healthcare, my kids won’t have huge student loan debt, the trains go everywhere, and the food is better.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      6 hours ago

      Unfortunately, I’m barely monolingual in English. If you have any recommendations for expats, I’d love to hear them - especially for someone that only knows English.

      • madde@feddit.org
        1·
        4 hours ago

        UK, Ireland, Luxembourg.

        The more niche your field is, the more acceptable English will be anyway everywhere else.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Made me think of the uh, American Apparel style of photography, sans showing as much skin as is (or isn’t) legally permissible.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      0·
      6 hours ago

      I’m constantly befuddled as to which decade it even is when it comes to fashion. I keep seeing young girls wearing those shirts that came straight out of the 80s - those big shirts that come off one shoulder. No idea what they are called. I haven’t seen those things in since forever - until the past few years.

      At the same time, I just saw a gaggle of teens/early 20s kids crossing the road, and one of the girls was wearing a pair of those huge tracksuit pants that I haven’t seen since early rave days.

      I’m sure there has been fashion in the 00, teens, and now 20s, but most of it seems rather light touch or didn’t last long, or spins on stuff from earlier decades…