Ed Weick said about the brain drain issue:
> The fact that "The Swiss report, [is] based on a survey of 4,160
> leading business executives" makes me just a little suspicious of the
> possibility of self-serving motives.
Yeh. I'd like to see a breakdown by occupation. I wonder how the
figures look if you omit "managers" and lawyers from the list.
Also, the reference to losing our "best and brightest" is interesting.
It's tautological that the people who move south because of wage and
tax incentives are chiefly motivated by personal financial advantage.
Are the people for whom personal financial advantage is a first
priority the "best and brightest"? Hmm... Of course, if there's a
quasi-religious dogma that the definition of "best and brightest" is
"those most dedicated to personal gain".....
BTW, Responding to Tom Lunde, Robert Rosenstein said,
> 4. The ultmate example of this way of thinking is perhaps expressed
> in a book (expose?) published in 1967 by Leonard Lewin. It is entitled,
> "Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desireablility of
> Peace".
Report from Iron Mountain was knocking about the net for years on
conspiracy groups. I have an ASCII copy here somewhere. Isn't it's
"commissioned report" status fictional? Somthing like Jonathon
Swift's piece about the solution to the Irish famine? Hair-raising
reading, nevertheless.
- Mike
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