I dont think every area of Manilla are dirt roads. Its too much generalization. Philippines number 69 in air quality. click each country to get real time number in cities.
I have alot more confidence in Japanese infrastructure surviving Earthquake than West Coast of US. you are not comparing the same quality. second you dont have idea about skill set and salary. Japanese and Korean simply not have same number of domestic software engineering quality so they are likely going to be paid less. how is that some one else fault if they did not created globalized Software firms like Toyota in manufacturing. Japan has learned certain lesson it is working within its means so entering less new fields and you can see it Japan is facing less labor shortage compared to other Asian countries. In order to have depth and breath you need mass migration. Good luck trying build Civil Aviation with such labor shortage. how you define greater amount of goods? In Asia. there is access to cheap cars which is no longer in US.
That superior standard of living is few percentage of people. West simply distribute or outsource the work by employing way more people. both onsite and offsites. when you have more people the demand of services goes up along with cost. There are 1.4m International student excluding exchange. and I think 70% will be from Asia so new talent will keep flowing as long wealth is created in rest of the world. the key word is wealthy outside US not from inside US. Covid impacted wealth so less people for time being.
Moving to another country is upto individuals unless you referring to some natural or man made disasters that are influencing decisions. Hard and Soft is very easy to define. Hard is forced and Soft is voluntary.
It is the intrinsic attraction of society that people attract too. look at Spain. how many people it receives for its small low tech economy and not much wealthy. Spain is a soft power.
This is so far off topic I'm not going to do my usual point-to-point.
Original topic is about soft vs hard power in determining where people prefer to immigrate. People from third world countries tend to want to immigrate to first world countries because the standard quality of life is better there and it's consider prestigious. That's not debatable, at least not in good faith. These are both things brought about by hard economic power, which is driven by hard technological and military power in the fight for resources.
That's the main point.
Hard and Soft is very easy to define. Hard is forced and Soft is voluntary.
LOL I had a feeling that when you said something is very easy, you'd mess it up. Your definition is narrow and dysfunctional and then your use of it is as well, but in a different way. First of all, is having a strong economy hard or soft power? Are you forcing yourself to have a strong economy or are you doing it willingly? Doesn't even make sense just like your definition.
It is the intrinsic attraction of society that people attract too. look at Spain. how many people it receives for its small low tech economy and not much wealthy. Spain is a soft power.
Swiss another example of a soft power. people around the world voluntarily put money there. or no one forced to buy those over priced unreliable European automobiles. Soft power also means you overpay over the perceived value received or do things that are not in interests just to appreciate that soft power.
here another example Arab approaching Turkey through Iran to use trade route which clearly avoid Arab dominated Suez and can enable Iran to have investments for higher energy production. This is 2021. some one soft power convince it.
Ok I warned you that it makes no sense to call a country a soft or a hard power. The terms "soft power" and "hard power" aren't useable in the same way as "middle power," "regional power," "great power," or "superpower" as you're using it. Now, you are really digging yourself a hole. So according to your "very easy" definition, are Spain/Switzerland/Arab nations "forced or voluntary" powers? What's a "forced country" and what's a "volunary country?" LOL
Go look up the meaning of "hard power" vs "soft power" before you waddle into a debate then side-track it into oblivion.
from where you get data that wealthier country is equal to comfortable life?
From common sense. Most people don't think laying out in the street with nothing to do all day is more comfortable than working 40 hours a week to afford a house, cars, grow a family, etc... even if it does sound like a vacation for life. Is your life more comfortable in Camaroon or Switzerland?
A person need to be wealthy not necessary the country as i mentioned very similar goods and service available around the world and airline connectivity is better than US domestic travel to enjoy life around the world on long vacations. Even for Kids around the world education is now good enough to get admission into top western Universities.
Well, 3 points:
1. Wealthy people want to become more wealthy and investing in a more powerful dynamic economy than their third world nation is a great way to do it. They want to be more than a big fish in a small pond so they want to enter a bigger economy.
2. There is a prestige in moving to a wealthy first world country from the point of view of small impoverished nations and that prestige is due to knowledge of the hard power of the advanced nation. It's considered admirable to have the chance to move there.
3. Talent and wealth are not the same. Many people have great talent but not wealth and they can grow a much more impressive and also financially-rewarding career in a first world nation with the resources to support them and a third world country where there is simply no oppertunity to develop the talent. For example, a talented rocket scientist can develop world-leading designs in China or the US and be paid over 99% of the population for his work but he'd be playing with mud in the Congo.
