The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain

Re:The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain by deong on Friday August 25, 2017 @03:13PM (#15101334)

Yep, I'm a US citizen with an American PhD in CS. I did a five year stint at a research lab in Iceland, and after two years back in the states, we're in the process of moving back to Reykjavik now, for most of the reasons you're discussing (as well as the bleak outlook for US science funding, and well, the overall bleak outlook for the US as just a suitable place to live at this point, but hey).

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Re:The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain by leggomylibro on Friday August 25, 2017 @04:31PM (#15101950)

It's not just academia and a bleak social outlook. I've been playing around with starting a business, and the USA is not, not, NOT a good place to bootstrap anything involving R&D or manufacturing. Without enormous capital reserves to back you or political connections, you're dead before you leave the gate.

Case in point; my state offers a 40% tax break to manufacturing companies. No, sorry, the governor vetoed that. They offer a 40% tax break to ONE gargantuan manufacturing company. I'd have to pay full price.

I could compete from China. I could play on an even playing field in Europe if I'm gonna pay out the nose anyways. Or I could stay in the US and get bled like a stuck pig until incumbent players can pay a pittance for my operation's desiccated corpse. American dream, my ass...

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Re:The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain by sjg007 on Friday August 25, 2017 @06:06PM (#15102613)

You have to play the politics, some way, any way.

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Re:The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain by sjg007 on Friday August 25, 2017 @05:09PM (#15102282)

Iceland is great.. most likely place to survive a nuclear winter.

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Re:The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain by somethingsimple on Saturday August 26, 2017 @01:43PM (#15106477)

Do you have a source for that?

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