A lot of us would need financial sponsorship. So there’d be a literal financial drain on those economies.
I still would like to sign up.
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TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I wondered if all the sane Americans did a max exodus to Canada, Europe, UK, Australia etc, what effect that wound have
PunnyName@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Soup@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Not if you stayed, then it’s an investment. Money doesn’t just disappear when goes to poor people, they use it to buy things like food and stuff. It would only be a financial drain if you were sending that money back home.
The North American mind cannot comprehend the benefits of supporting the poor.
slothrop@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
UBI should be ubiquitous.
UBI = Universal Basic Income
bigboitricky@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Amazing Americans say with their full chest this is socialism
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Perhaps strain would be a better word than drain - it would still be a short-mid term financial burden to take even a tiny fraction of the sane population from the US, it’s a big country.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
True.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
And a hell of a good one. Adults will have already passed through education, so we would save on that part.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I get that, the initial investment would be pretty significant.
I’m not against it of course, I just think it’s necessary to understand the risks of any gamble.
pennomi@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Have you looked into what it takes to get a permanent visa to one of those countries? It’s not easy.
Master@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Its prohibitively impossible.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 7 hours ago
Its not that hard especially for an American.
pennomi@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It is that hard, I’ve looked. You typically need to rank highly on a skill list AND have a relatively well-paying job offer. And if you think it’s hard interviewing in your own country, it’s far worse interviewing outside of it.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 hours ago
What are you comparing it to? Americans have a much easier path to permanent residency than a vast majority of the world.
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It’s already happening, there’s been a deluge of affluent people leaving the US.
We’re still at the stage where it takes considerable privilege to just leave everything behind and pay the exit extortion (40% of all your shit).
Once things get worse and people have nothing to leave behind you’ll start seeing the engineers/doctors escaping.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 hours ago
I did it a while ago, would recommend.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
If you don’t mind sharing, did you have to pay the exit tax? Actually, what was your way out?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 hours ago
No exit tax. Academia route, I’ve been beelining an out since I was a teenager and I qualify for EU citizenship on heritage, working on that. I would like to thank my now irl friends from thousands of hours on EU MMORPG servers for unintentionally guiding me out.
frank@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
Exit tax is only if you give up your US citizenship, which you definitely can’t do if you don’t have another citizenship and even then it’s very often not required
Redkid1324@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Aren’t you still paying taxes to the USA? Just curious.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 hours ago
You have to earn over something like 100k for the US to tax you.
Redkid1324@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Ohhhh that’s interesting.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
You still have to file, but you don’t need to pay taxes unless you’re earning enough that the visa won’t be a problem.
But, like, if you close everything out and never go back…
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 42 minutes ago
the one that have money to migrate to another country have done it already. buts mostly PHD level professionals, rather difficult for people who only have a ms or bs with no established career already. unless you well off enough to be able to move.