One of the most positive political changes we could hope to see in the 21st century would be more free movement of people across borders. Not just for tourism. For work.
We're all better off if people can legitimately move to where their labor productivity is higher. The numbers are fairly clear on this. I've seen estimates that you could double global GDP just by letting people migrate to where there's more productive capital available.
Climate change makes this even more important. Mass migration is almost certainly going to happen -- we can let it happen in an orderly way, or we can let it be chaotic.
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One of the most positive political changes we could hope to see in the 21st century would be more free movement of people across borders. Not just for tourism. For work.
We're all better off if people can legitimately move to where their labor productivity is higher. The numbers are fairly clear on this. I've seen estimates that you could double global GDP just by letting people migrate to where there's more productive capital available.
Climate change makes this even more important. Mass migration is almost certainly going to happen -- we can let it happen in an orderly way, or we can let it be chaotic.
Unfortunately, Racism and protectionism will make sure this will never happen.