The video is in Moroccan (with some occasional words in English). Click here to watch it.
Hmm, very tempting, but no, thanks. In my experience, being a middle-class citizen in Morocco while working online with people from all over the world is better than being poor/middle-class/rich anywhere else in the world, note that I’m too proud to live on government handouts — no offense to those who do. Mind you, I’m not trying to be patriotic here; it’s more of a “convenient survival” thing, if you will, (as an IT guy, I would also call it “default settings” or “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”), because personally, I think we underestimate how awesome Morocco can be, especially if you manage to find a job that doesn’t require you waking up at 7AM every day (I wouldn’t call Moroccan jobs IRL “9-to-5 jobs”, because we all know there’s no such thing here.)
And speaking of things that piss one off, it really pisses me off when people give advice about “getting out of your comfort zone” when sometimes, a so-called comfort zone has to be earned. I personally went from being a penniless university student who aced every exam (English studies) to a “money conscious” university dropout; I now do what I love, and I make twice as much as a high school teacher does here, and with way less effort, since I don’t have to grade any papers or supervise students during national/regional exams or wake up to an alarm almost every day, reminding myself that most of my students are lost causes.) Ironically, I get paid for things I used to do for myself for free — solving tech problems. 😅
With that being said, the Diversity Visa Program should be for those who have nothing to lose, and who aren’t happy with the status quo. If you already are happy with what you got, you don’t have to risk it all for the so-called American Dream, and remember what George Carlin said, “[…] It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”