[200x0]

1. Exploitative actions taken by individuals and companies are nothing compared to the ones taken by your governments. Europe is running cheap education improvement programs here as we speak, and other such show-tell crap, but they also sign exploitative deals and house corrupt blood money of my dictator in your banking systems - giving him free-pass to do as he likes, as long as the deals are signed and people are silenced. It's realpolitik all the way down.

2. We do want interference, interference against your current interference.

3. Just let us establish our own instutitions, stop helping and making deals with criminals, stop putting on the mask of being humanitarian and then exploiting the living shit out of us.

4. Work visas - please make them available for the skilled and offer us some channel for escape. We are majorly landlocked because our passports don't even grant us a tourist visas to anywhere other than bumhole Somalia or Afghanistan.

I could go on for ages but you people have so vastly different view on these issues I don't even feel like it would be worth my time.

[euyyn]

I'm European and, like almost all, don't want my government making deals with dictators. If there's some press coverage about the things you say at least we can make enough noise that it gets the attention of politicians.

[thatguy0900]

Regarding 4, I'm curious why it's in this list with the others. It certainly makes life better for the individual, but doesn't losing all its top talent to foreign countries hurt developing countries?

[200x0]

As I said, vastly different views, to the point of being annoying.

We, as a country, are not in the business of "country-building" but rather survival and that of avoiding pain. Our government doesn't need talented individuals - they just need brainwashed populace and stability for their power. Thinkers are direct infraction to the system and usually are not tolareted.

Also, what do you expect disarray of talented individuals with no power to concentrate power to do alone in a society that doesn't recognize nor like them?

[fnovd]

So you solution (highlighted in point 4) is to move to a Western country and become part of the problem?

[cardiffspaceman]

I think the "casual game theory" of (4) is, if you want to improve those places, let them have work visas. There are people in certain countries who can be empowered through work visas to pursue their calling (pastors in churches, teaching mathematics in universities, sizing contact lenses of the rich and idle or whatever). Those who choose not to apply for the visas will maybe try something at home, knowing they can get that work visa if what they try doesn't work. And maybe in the trying they will find a different calling than they thought. In succeeding at the things they try at home they might lower the need for work visas.