Originally posted by khushal
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The point that Kaku is making is that the H1B visa which brings in the best minds to the US prevents the scientific community in the US from collapsing. But the reason those brains come to the US is because of economic opportunity which again points to the econmic priciples the US applies. The reason that less "brains" are coming to the US or leaving the US to go back to China and India is again because those countries have changed their economic priciples so again it points to econmic priciples.
I you have two societies with equal knowledge in physics, the one with the better economic opportunity will out do the other. This happened with the Soviets and Americans.
I you have society A which has close to zero knowledge in physics and have better economic principles vs society B which has extraordinary knowledge in phycics but poor econmic opportunity, the "brains" from society B will go to Society A and still the one with better economic oppertunity has the upper hand. This happened with the Persian Gulf states where a bunch of lazy and stupid arabs(your cousins) do nothing while the engineers from India and the West build everything.
So in conclusion, economics rule.
QED

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