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This question was also discussed in this other forum post, and probably in some other posts that I can’t find. Why Brain Drain Isn’t Something We Should Worry About

I think not adopting policies or helping people to immigrate would be a very tough sell, given (my impression, at least) of the overwhelmingly strong evidence of immigration on quality of life and economic growth—I was under the impression that the evidence was pretty strong on the “brain drain=good” side, though I could be wrong. An important part of being EA is being evidence based, and I’d need to see evidence that brain drain is actually bad on net.

This also seems very morally problematic—“US passport for me but not for thee” doesn’t seem like something I would be comfortable supporting ethically without very strong evidence otherwise. Forcing someone to work and live somewhere against their will seems really bad. I wouldn’t want to be plucked up, moved to a developing country, be forced to work, and told I couldn’t leave, and I’d encourage people to not do that to others as well.