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So a survey (whose specifics I haven't examined with due diligence) says that 14% of people making more than the equivalent of $10M US / year have begun the process of emigrating to CAN / US.
http://news.yahoo.com/almost-half-ch...063620562.html
I'm kind of ambivalent about how to feel about this- I live in N.A. and like it, so I can't argue that other people, i.e. S.A., like it too.
And one of my favorite past-times is criticizing the people in political power. I know how they can't do that in the P.R.C., so I feel for them.
But what I'm conflicted about is how to monitor this occurrence? I'm assuming that southeast asia will have a surplus population of menial/servitude/unskilled/etc. workers for the next part of the century, and that this will be not totally addressed by the large amount of capital that the P.R.C. expends in education.
What's bothering me is that when the wealthy can emigrate to a place that's nice to live, they have no incentive to change things where they came from. Workers have joined together to demand work environments that don't kill them from exposure to toxic chemicals. It's harder to do that when the boss doesn't live in the better part of town, he lives in another continent.
The third hand tells us that this should be a motive for political change as well - when the most profitable citizens are making preparations for bugging out, it's time for the economy / politicy to change!
http://news.yahoo.com/almost-half-ch...063620562.html
I'm kind of ambivalent about how to feel about this- I live in N.A. and like it, so I can't argue that other people, i.e. S.A., like it too.
And one of my favorite past-times is criticizing the people in political power. I know how they can't do that in the P.R.C., so I feel for them.
But what I'm conflicted about is how to monitor this occurrence? I'm assuming that southeast asia will have a surplus population of menial/servitude/unskilled/etc. workers for the next part of the century, and that this will be not totally addressed by the large amount of capital that the P.R.C. expends in education.
What's bothering me is that when the wealthy can emigrate to a place that's nice to live, they have no incentive to change things where they came from. Workers have joined together to demand work environments that don't kill them from exposure to toxic chemicals. It's harder to do that when the boss doesn't live in the better part of town, he lives in another continent.
The third hand tells us that this should be a motive for political change as well - when the most profitable citizens are making preparations for bugging out, it's time for the economy / politicy to change!
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