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The global war for talent, US-China tech edition
Per the @FT, Chinese tech talent is leaving the US to return to China:
https://t.co/GLMAVEGvZC
Deeper dive into the global circulation of talent seeking opportunity in my recent #MoveTheBook:
https://t.co/xYRsxGwctH
Migration is no longer just south to north and east to west. It’s a swirl of expats chasing lifestyle convenience, political stability, low tax and more:
https://t.co/nHf6Mbmdfx
The global picture of this in my #MoveTheBook
"Regional Fortresses" was one of the four main scenarios I sketched in #MoveTheBook: high climate volatility, low migration.

An argument I made in #MoveTheBook:
Today's youth – lacking assets, not owning homes, and not having children – are far more likely to maintain liberal ideals. It's as if the Boomers had stuck to the 60s spirit.
Do people become more conservative as they age?
If they were born between 1940 and 1954, the answer is clearly "yes."
Among people born from 1955 to 1979, there's really been no change.
For those born in 1980 or later, it looks they are becoming more liberal as they age.

There are now more tech workers going from the US to Europe than the other way around

Great to see this excerpt of Bill Gurley's thoughtful memoir. He emphasizes geography over and over. Yes, it's more important than ever. As I argue in #MoveTheBook, physical mobility is still the surest path to economic mobility. Being mobile is a skill in itself.
https://t.co/7ujwN1uHWu
@bgurley @tferriss
A couple of pages from #MoveTheBook about Indian migration to Russia. I speculate at the end about Russia is gradually blending with yellow and brown demographics...

Russia: mass migration is killing Europe because warmongering EU.
Also Russia: we need to import 2.3 million Indian workers (because our own men died or were maimed while invading Ukraine.)

Simon Kuper is spot on in this FT column. It's both an example of the West becoming like the rest as well as a recognition that Europe needs migrants for its economy.
More on this in #MoveTheBook.
@KuperSimon
European states need immigrants but don't want them. How to square that circle? Posture against immigrants while taking in more than ever before and treating them as a permanent second-class serving caste with few rights. Me @FT on European kafala https://t.co/RLRE8bXXpR
Asian youth in general - and Indians in particular - represent the vast majority of young talent on Earth.
Furthermore, as I explained in #MoveTheBook, they are the most value-add as well across industries from medicine to tech. They always give more than they take.
All the social complexity of the world actually boils down to this: the winning societies of the future are the ones that recruit and assimilate today's talented Asian youth.
@balajis

INDIA, INTERNET, INTERNATIONAL
If you're Indian, don't move to America.
Because the US left hates technocapitalists.
And the US right wants no more immigrants.
Moreover, as the sovereign debt crisis worsens...
It only gets worse. Possibly murderously worse.
So: Indian immigrant technocapitalists need alternatives. And there are three options: India, Internet, and International.
1. India
India itself is the world's fastest growing economy, with the #1 growth rate in the world over the last 10 years. Every major company is investing in India. So you can do well in the Indian economy:
2. Internet
The Internet is taking over from a fading NYSE/NASDAQ as the world's largest capital market. The decline of Delaware and NYC accelerate this; everyone from Elon to Elad Gil to a16z to Dropbox have moved out of Delaware for incorporation, and Mamdani is catalyzing a capital exodus to Miami.
So: the US is no longer a stable place for capital formation. And Solana and Ethereum already put Indians on a level playing field with the entire world, with digital rule-of-law. No one can discriminate against you in a smart contract simply for being Indian, so you can do well in the Internet economy:
3. International
Finally, at the exact moment that the US has stopped recruiting tech talent while India is generating enormous amounts of it, the rest of the world is opening their doors to digital nomads.
Dozens of places from the UAE to Singapore have created many different kinds of talent visas. And so Indian technologists have begun rerouting there, especially to Dubai and Singapore. So that's the third option: the International economy:
In short: do not expect the US to suddenly become more friendly towards immigrant capitalists. The long-term financial outlook is not good, so America is unfortunately no longer a good place to build a stable life and a career. Which is why Americans themselves are in a zero-sum mentality.
You can't fix that.
Instead, if you're an Indian technologist, rely only on TCP/IP rather than H-1B. And build yourself up in India, on the Internet, or internationally.

Signing another 100 copies of #MoveTheBook before dinner. Four years after the first edition, Trump and European immigration debates (sadly) make the book more relevant than ever.
@ScribnerBooks @SimonBooks @HachetteUK @HachetteIndia

The drought facing #Tehran #Iran raises fears of a potential exodus from the megacity of 14 million residents. I warned of this in #MoveTheBook and in this reportage for @NatGeo on mass migrations owing to climate change:
https://t.co/PTvE7iL5R8
Fabulous evening at the reincarnated Nanson Club in Singapore discussing everyone's (least?) favorite topic: What's your "Plan B" amidst global volatility?
#MoveTheBook is more relevant than ever, it seems.

Nice essay echoing arguments from #MoveTheBook on managing migration in ways that democratic consensus will continue to favor:
https://t.co/JxskAfykkJ
A theme I covered in #MoveTheBook: How heatwaves in Europe are changing daily habits and tourist routines towards nocturnal activities.
https://t.co/hNs8NMgKNt
Robots don't do everything yet, and certainly not everywhere – not even Japan. Hence, migration is rising rapidly. As I explained in #MoveTheBook, the migrant influx has spread beyond greater Tokyo into rural prefectures.

Underground aquifers are depleting – and water is non-fungible:
https://t.co/9qvYjk2bM7
On mega-droughts as drivers of mass migrations, see #MoveTheBook.
"If liberals do not build a better system, populists will build a worse one." Hence the middle ground I argue for in #MoveTheBook by which clearer laws, less bureaucracy and more resources go towards integration and assimilation with a focus on matching market needs.
The asylum system is not working. It cannot cope with a world of proliferating conflict, cheap travel and huge wage disparities. A more pragmatic approach starts by helping refugees find shelter closer to home https://t.co/uXYuZ7UW8z

With sub-replacement fertility, a high vacant housing stock and pragmatic relations with Latin America and Africa, Spain continues to evolve as a high-migration society. As I put it in #MoveTheBook, "Southern Europe is for sale." https://t.co/84Voda5XYX
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