> "Several" billion? That's half the world's population. Yes, it is. Are you suggesting that more than half of the world's population wouldn't move to the US

> "Several" billion? That's half the world's population. Yes, it is. Are you suggesting that more than half of the world's population wouldn't move to the US if doing so was a reasonable option for them? Seriously - for most people, being poor in the US would be a huge step up. (As someone put it, almost every "Occupy" protestor is in the 1% on a world-wide basis.) And they're pretty sure that they would do better than the worst.