To the extent that the most intelligent and capable Indians are emigrating to Europe and North America, it harms those who remain. Boiling off their best and brightest exacerbates the country’s problems and stunts future development.
These observations apply to migration from the Third World in general. If Mr Bhandari’s description of Indian society is accurate, Western countries don’t need to be importing that kind of dysfunction:
… a compulsive need to recreate India in the ghettos they moved into. They sought the familiar smells, noise, and constant hustle and bustle. They recreated never-ending emotionalism, fruitless conflicts, chaos, and intellectual inbreeding.
Mr Bhandari has given up on his home country, which is understandable. While he may fit into Western societies and adopt their values, most of his fellow emigres do not. I don’t see any way out of this trap short of drastically reducing immigration from these troubled lands.
Good point! Now, about the most intelligent and capable Europeans who emigrated to North America during the 19th Century … what impact has that had on Europe?
Further, remember the “Brain Drain” from Europe during NASA’s go-go years. What impacts has that had – on both sides of the Atlantic?
But if I may disagree with myself, look at the number of foreign-born academics in a typical North American university, especially in technical disciplines. Maybe attracting the “best & brightest” is not always a Good Thing?
We agree; it’s not necessarily a good thing. The American university is broken in many ways but that is a topic for another thread. Mercifully, that bubble will eventually pop, though it’s not clear when. Seems like it’s been on the verge for some time.
An analysis on X pointed out that the math for that graphic didn’t account for the demographic changes just from retirees being more white than their younger replacements. There’s a problem, but nowhere near that size.
If that is even close to reality wouldn’t corporations be exposed to violation of equal opportunity?
I am not sure I understand disparate impact. I thought if the statistics showed that the hiring was impacting a protected criteria such as race, the corporation had to show why it was necessary.
Over the past decade, average literacy proficiency improved only in Denmark and Finland, remaining stable or declining in all other participating countries and economies.
Most of the countries and economies that experienced skill declines saw literacy and numeracy proficiency decrease across different age groups.
Widespread educational expansion did not compensate for these trends, as proficiency among tertiary-educated graduates decreased or stagnated in most countries.
…the battery with the single-crystal electrode has a lifespan equivalent to driving about 5 million miles. For comparison, typical EV batteries today need to be replaced after about 200,000 miles
Given that cars generally are not used beyond 200k miles, it’s not clear how this fills a need. The only way this is of much use is if batteries from scrapped cars are installed in new cars.
Instead, the approach seems to be to use the batteries elsewhere:
the batteries could find a second life in grid-scale energy-storage systems
A cost/benefit analysis would be required to assess if this approach is superior to simply recycling the material from conventional batteries. In short, there may be less than meets the eye here.
Another factor is the issue of cell life distribution v. pack life distribution. If a pack has 500 cells, what is the target average cell life to have 95% of packs last just the mentioned 200k miles?
My guess is that under cross-examination the people involved would admit they are merely predicting that under near ideal conditions a lucky individual cell would last the equivalent of millions of miles.
