I would love it if Bangladesh had been like Singapore and suppressed the socialists instead of losing decades (and millions of dead babies to poverty) fucking around. We would’ve never left. Thankfully, the majority of the country has wised up: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alyssaayres/2014/10/28/banglade.... Unfortunately, lots of people still have the left-wing poverty mindset, hoping either that European and American leftists will help them, or alternatively, hoping that leftist ideas that never made any poor country into a rich country—and certainly wasn’t how Europeans and Americans themselves got rich—will somehow work.

Half my family still lives there. It’s completely different than it was even 20 years ago. What’s remarkable to see the degree to which the impetus to emigrate has declined among my younger cousins, compared to my parent’s and my generation.

By the way, remittances is under 5% of GDP in Bangladesh, about the same as Mexico. Nothing to be ashamed of—many rich countries today, ranging from Italy to Japan to Ireland, had a similar history of poor workers leaving to work abroad.