Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
cocco, do you suppose that if everyone in the world had true freedom of movement, with the right to live and work anywhere, that you'd have the same amount of people going to USA and Australia as you would Zimbabwe and Saudi Arabia?

What would happen is everyone would want to move out of their shithole desert and come live in lovely places where the weather is nice and crops are plentiful.

Open global border would result in massive mobilisation of people, and it would mostly be going in the same direction... from Asia/Africa to Europe/America. You think that's ideal?
I wasn't proposing that it should be done overnight, I was describing an idea of what would be an ideal (or closer to) scheme. Maybe in a few decades, with an additional few for refinement and getting over major bugs. A few decades is a blink of an eye.

Think of it as do all people in England now live in downtown London? No, they can't afford it, or for some other reason it doesn't make sense for them. This would be exactly the same, just on a bigger scale. There are a variety of reasons and motives behind people living somewhere or wanting to move. If all of the planet was under the same fiscal and administrative umbrella, it would make perfect sense to put resources into developing all of them. It wouldn't make sense just to go steal oil from some country, it's already yours and letting the infrastructure rot there is your problem. Skin in the game? Oh and there is already a massive mobilisation of people from many areas, and either way it's gonna keep getting worse unless something changes drastically.