今天，我和十二位年轻的爱尔兰人共进午餐——他们都是二十出头的优秀青年，从事火箭、生物科技、软件/人工智能等领域的工作。我问他们：“在接下来的三年里，有没有人打算离开爱尔兰？”除了一个人，所有人都举起了手。我又问那位没有举手的人为何选择留下，他解释说自己也准备离开，只是不会在未来三年内。 流动性（能自由迁徙）本身当然是好事，但如果像这样的一群人都觉得“应该离开自己的国家”，那就令人担忧了。 而这种意愿似乎相当普遍——2023 年的一项研究显示，想要离开爱尔兰的年轻人比例在整个欧盟中最高。 Today I had lunch with twelve young Irish people -- a wonderful bunch in their early 20s working on rockets, biotech, software/AI, etc. I enquired about whether any were planning on leaving Ireland over the next 3 years. All hands but one went up. I asked the holdout why he was staying; he clarified that he was also going to leave, just not in the next three years. Mobility is a wonderful thing, but it feels worrisome if everyone in such a group concludes that they ought to emigrate. This desire seems to generalize. A 2023 study suggested that more young people want to leave Ireland than any other EU country.
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今天，我和十二位年轻的爱尔兰人共进午餐——他们都是二十出头的优秀青年，从事火箭、生物科技、软件/人工智能等领域的工作。我问他们：“在接下来的三年里，有没有人打算离开爱尔兰？”除了一个人，所有人都举起了手。我又问那位没有举手的人为何选择留下，他解释说自己也准备离开，只是不会在未来三年内。
流动性（能自由迁徙）本身当然是好事，但如果像这样的一群人都觉得“应该离开自己的国家”，那就令人担忧了。
而这种意愿似乎相当普遍——2023 年的一项研究显示，想要离开爱尔兰的年轻人比例在整个欧盟中最高。
Today I had lunch with twelve young Irish people -- a wonderful bunch in their early 20s working on rockets, biotech, software/AI, etc. I enquired about whether any were planning on leaving Ireland over the next 3 years. All hands but one went up. I asked the holdout why he was staying; he clarified that he was also going to leave, just not in the next three years.
Mobility is a wonderful thing, but it feels worrisome if everyone in such a group concludes that they ought to emigrate.
This desire seems to generalize. A 2023 study suggested that more young people want to leave Ireland than any other EU country.
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