Member-only story
America Is Bleeding, and Band-Aids Won’t Fix It
More Americans are giving up their citizenship now than ever before
I grew up in India in an era where “brain-drain” was a common term used to describe a certain phenomenon that was plaguing the country. This phenomenon was described as one big reason for India’s lack of development despite its population and glorious past.
Brain drain refers to the fact that many of the smartest minds in India, studied from premier institutes of science and management, and then moved abroad in search of greener pastures. These greener pastures most often meant the land of dreams — the United States of America.
America had everything — Silicon Valley for the tech minds, Wall Street for the financial geniuses, and this unique ability to nurture the best talent and provide opportunities unparalleled by any other nation of the world.
Fast forward to today, and the results of that brain drain are evident. Google with Sundar Pichai, Microsoft with Satya Nadella, Adobe with Shantanu Narayen, Pepsi with recently retired Indira Nooyi, and many other Fortune 500 organizations have or had Indian CEOs at the helm.
America had the nack of providing opportunities to the smartest of minds and then also embracing them as one of their own. The…
