Comment on Insulin

TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A lot of us would need financial sponsorship. So there’d be a literal financial drain on those economies.

  I still would like to sign up.

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  • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not if you stayed, then it’s an investment. Money doesn’t just disappear when goes to poor people, they use it to buy things like food and stuff. It would only be a financial drain if you were sending that money back home.

    The North American mind cannot comprehend the benefits of supporting the poor.

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    • slothrop@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      UBI should be ubiquitous.

      UBI = Universal Basic Income

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      • bigboitricky@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Amazing Americans say with their full chest this is socialism

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Perhaps strain would be a better word than drain - it would still be a short-mid term financial burden to take even a tiny fraction of the sane population from the US, it’s a big country.

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      • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        True.

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    • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And a hell of a good one. Adults will have already passed through education, so we would save on that part.

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    • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I get that, the initial investment would be pretty significant.

      I’m not against it of course, I just think it’s necessary to understand the risks of any gamble.

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Have you looked into what it takes to get a permanent visa to one of those countries? It’s not easy.

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  • Master@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its prohibitively impossible.

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its not that hard especially for an American.

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    • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It is that hard, I’ve looked. You typically need to rank highly on a skill list AND have a relatively well-paying job offer. And if you think it’s hard interviewing in your own country, it’s far worse interviewing outside of it.

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      • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What are you comparing it to? Americans have a much easier path to permanent residency than a vast majority of the world.

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• turdcollector69@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s already happening, there’s been a deluge of affluent people leaving the US.

  We’re still at the stage where it takes considerable privilege to just leave everything behind and pay the exit extortion (40% of all your shit).

  Once things get worse and people have nothing to leave behind you’ll start seeing the engineers/doctors escaping.

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I did it a while ago, would recommend.

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  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you don’t mind sharing, did you have to pay the exit tax? Actually, what was your way out?

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    • frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Exit tax is only if you give up your US citizenship, which you definitely can’t do if you don’t have another citizenship and even then it’s very often not required

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      No exit tax. Academia route, I’ve been beelining an out since I was a teenager and I qualify for EU citizenship on heritage, working on that. I would like to thank my now irl friends from thousands of hours on EU MMORPG servers for unintentionally guiding me out.

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  • Redkid1324@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Aren’t you still paying taxes to the USA? Just curious.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You have to earn over something like 100k for the US to tax you.

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      • Redkid1324@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ohhhh that’s interesting.

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You still have to file, but you don’t need to pay taxes unless you’re earning enough that the visa won’t be a problem.

      But, like, if you close everything out and never go back…

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      • Redkid1324@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The IRS will still find you lol

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