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> Free movement of human beings should be a human right. Restricting immigration is nothing more than descrimination. I agree free movement of sapients should
by yourapostasy 9y ago
> Free movement of human beings should be a human right. Restricting immigration is nothing more than descrimination.
I agree free movement of sapients should match the ease with which capital moves. However, atoms and bits have different energy profiles, and hence different logistical tails. The logistical tail to support the marginal person moving into full citizenship benefits and rights of say, the Democratic Republic of Congo, versus say, Singapore, are vastly different. How would you propose to bridge this logistics gulf, which doesn't even address the cognitive and knowledge gulf of citizens from more impoverished nations moving into more prosperous nations with a higher societal- and culturally-expected baseline of cognitive abilities, skills, and knowledge? This has historically been a tough problem to crack at the developed nation side to achieve unrestricted immigration, hence why I suspect there is increasing emphasis upon improving the situation at the developing nation angle (a "rising tide" strategy).