Every country produces people like this, in abundance. In America their talents blossom, in many other countries, they wither. America was once fertile ground for almost every kind of talent, artistic, creative, scientific, industrial.
But not if Bernie has his way.
Charles Krauthammer wrote a book about it where he says its getting the politics right. What you say is tragically true. Talented people die on the vine in places like Iran which once was the cradle of creativity in the arts and places like China. North Korea? They execute you there if you are talented