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Do you really think future generations will handle this any less restrictive? I don't think so, especially not with ever accelerating climate-change forcing pe

• acadapter 3y ago
  An increasing amount of people have relatives on the other side of the Western high-status bubble, and this might affect political attitudes against hard borders
• ben_w 3y ago
  Could easily go either way. Even in a one-world-government scenario, there are countries with restrictions on internal migration. The usual arguments about migration are "crime, language, culture, jobs". Crime: AI can already give us trivial cost total surveillance that would make the literal Stasi feel you'd gone too far Language: AI translation is pretty good, just not real time and speech recognition is still kinda meh Culture: internet is a giant melting-pot even without migration, and also there's cultural assortive behaviour even within borders over things like "democrat or republican"* or "Red Sox vs… Yankees"** or "Catholic vs. Baptist" Jobs: offshoring, remote work, and automation are all bigger issues… or should be, at least from an economic POV when the dichotomy (to use an American perspective for illustration but there's also an equivalent one in Mexico) is "Mexicans move to San Diego and take American jobs" vs. "The factory moves from San Diego to Tijuana and Americans are no longer allowed to work there", and the fact this counterpoint never comes up is really just evidence that it's not actually about the economics. * both big and small R/D, in different contexts; I was born in a kingdom not a republic. ** I had to google that, I'm not into sports.