it's not "inherently bad", but the way and scale it happens right now, is - for everyone involved. you can gaslight yourself as much as you want, blaming "demagogues" and "the yellow press" for the bad image, turn around and use the exact same indiscriminating and shallow approach to portrait it as something intrinsic great without seeing the irony in it. and again, it's fascinating how ppl like you chose to simply ignore the brain drain for other countries and the continuing social and economic downward spiral there because of it because in your opinion it's "the best solution for many of our problems and also just regular people like us" [citation needed].