I went to Morocco last summer, and ran into a couple of people who spoke english. They seemed pretty interesting, and I was getting tired of having to speak French to everyone, so I struck up conversation with them. It sounded like Morocco, despite its strides in the past 10-20 years, still have a long way to go, because the country is so dependant on foreign investment, specifically French investment. It really seemed like very few people actually wanted to stay in the country and work to improve it, and instead just got whatever degree they could think of that would make it easier to move to France and find a job. And the people who didn’t get degrees, wanted to move to Spain to do backbreaking aggricultural labour.

It honestly amazes me that a country with Moroccos size, population and general education level isn’t doing better, but I guess that is one of the main ways that capialism constrains development.

Yeah I’ve been learning more about Puerto Rico and this is a problem. They get educated in the island but because of the exploitation there’s huge brain drain. Of course that makes it very profitable for the US because it means they can swoop it up and “modernize” the country for rich, mainland yanks meanwhile they enjoy Puerto Ricans’ labor

I believe east Germany also experienced this. They had superior education but the west offered much higher salaries