Harms and more harms

How do you know which country is richer? And does it matter which is the richer country? Going by the prop's own definition of BD as unacceptable, the answer would be no. If taking away a brain from another country that needs it is unacceptable, it shouldn't be acceptable if the country isn't the poorest or even poor. Doctors are a scarce resource and are needed everywhere. So why wouldn't all countries claim they need compensation? Do you need a doctor or nurse any less because you live in Europe? Many countries could ask for compensation if this is implemented as explained, they would only need to show that they are poorer than another where their people are migrating to. This would greatly complicate relations between countries. The prop. plan has all the potential to work as the intellectual colonialism they try to avoid. In this unilateral approach the richer country could offer the compensation that it determines as just for taking what it wants. This could bring some former Colonies very bad memories of olden times and create some friction. The poorer government doesn't decide the price because as they explain, if the poor country doesn't accept the compensation because it doesn't like the number or is offended by the compensation, the the doctor can leave (and send the postcard) and the rich country gives the money undermining the decision of the poor country. Not to mention the fact that, to get an idea of a real amount to offer the rich country would have to go into the poorer country's business to know data to base an offer on. This is both asymmetric and imperialistic. We blush just imagining the epithets Obama would get from Chavez if the first offered to pay Venezuela for all the MP that have migrated there, and how fast he would not only decry this offer as offensive while threatening to call his ambassador back from Washington, but offer to pay the heating costs for half a state in the US just to show off. Oh no, we are sorry, he already does that last thing. Well, he would find something. They say "...brain drains, including the loss of medical personnel, take place between relatively rich countries provided the income disparity is wide enough. For example, rich Middle Eastern countries actively recruit doctors and nurses from Europe by offering high wages and low rates of taxation". This example is given as proof that BDs have economical causes and the situation in the country doesn't play any role, but we didn't say that this phenomenon is only caused by any one cause. There are some brain drains explained by improvements on salaries, as the example of Saudi Arabia and Europe. What we say is that there are other causes for BDs. Upon closer viewing, their example shows people take into account more than money. Contracts for MPs in Saudi Arabia last one or two years. To understand why so little we only needed to look at the answer to the question "Can I take my family? ("For nurses no, the contracts are single status") to know why. And it's single female nurses since, as its explained,"there are very limited posts for male nurses as Saudi Arabia is a Islamic society and males cannot nurse females or children on their own, there should be a female present." [[http://www.nursinginsaudi.net/FAQs-FAQ--Working-as-a-nurse-in-Saudi-Arabia]] Of course people would leave Europe for Saudi Arabia for a year or two, maybe extend it if you are single. You can see it as a short adventure where you will see the world and make more money. But this is not comparable to leaving your country forever, many times without your family and being bound to this new country in a draconian contract where you have to pay to leave. You come to a decision to leave when you balance what you will gain in money and life style with what you would loose in life style and nearness with loved ones. Most people wont leave Europe for Saudi Arabia forever if they can't take their children. And there is no money you can pay any one of us in team Venezuela to leave our (albeit hypothetical) children since we all feel we have enough to eat and to live a reasonably comfortable life here. But if we were to be able to take our children with us we may leave. We may stay in the current state of affairs, but anyone of us would leave if political persecution gets a lot worse and makes life here unbearable. That would be crossing our threshold and we would escape to save our lives, maybe leaving dear ones here. They inquire about our explanation of why "the doctor or nurse who wishes to relocate has an obligation to the poorer country where they first trained (which the proposition have repeatedly proven does not exist on moral terms only on an economic one)." We don't say they have an moral obligation, we observe they may be patriotic or otherwise attached to their environment and feel that they can use their knowledge to help their country and may feel an obligation. Said feeling might dissipate if they see that their government is getting money out of them. This consideration alone increases Brain Drain.