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A country with no borders is not a country at all, merely an "economic zone" that can be leached until dry.
by DaSHacka 1y ago
A country with no borders is not a country at all, merely an "economic zone" that can be leached until dry.
- mock-possum 1y agoWhat is the mechanism whereby an economic zone is leached, such that borders would protect it?
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y agoI don't have hard data yet but I'm pretty sure some cities have suburbs outside them, connected via road, that rich people use as tax havens so they can live near a city without being subject to the laws and taxation of the city
- array_key_first 1y agoRight but if you go into a country then you're in the country, not in the outskirts. You still pay taxes (generally...), and, in many countries, don't get any social services. If anything, many formally-colonial countries are leeching off their illegal immigrants, not the other way around.
- Dylan16807 1y agoCountries are generally big and with cities on both sides of a border so that doesn't seem like it would be a big worry for them.