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There is a survivor's bias here that concerns me. Currently the world values the tech sector because we're perceived as potentially making people a lot of mone

There is a survivor's bias here that concerns me. Currently the world values the tech sector because we're perceived as potentially making people a lot of money. Once it catches on that we spend most of our days cutting through the red tape of entrenched spaghetti code and making pixels blink, this could all change. It may swing back to valuing farming/construction/industry or shift to even higher speculation (space exploration etc) and we could find ourselves ostracized. I would prefer that we had more open immigration policies and worked towards solving the root cause of mass migration, which is hundreds of years of colonialism and capitalist imperialism that led to global warfare and suffering. The people have a better shot at accomplishing this than either the market or authoritarian governments.

aries1980 11y ago
(Side note: I don't think slavs, goths, vandals, huns, greeks, etruscs, arabs, phoenicians, etc. were affected of any imperialism ideas back in the days when they invaded Europe.) The issue with the current migration is it encourages the migrants to overtake the largest cities and the proposed legislation with the minimum salary encourages this: you can earn such amount only if you live in the top 3 city. Are you a builder, carpenter, electrician, teacher? Good luck to earn such money as an employee outside the metropolitan areas. Yet the need for these professions is higher than ever. If the migration would be more balanced, restricting the freedom of move, there would be less side-effects, at least no more ghettos.