Nikola Mitev on Nostr: The question of migration of people is tied to other cross border interactions: 1) ...
The question of migration of people is tied to other cross border interactions:
1) Powerful countries routinely exploit less powerful ones and actively suppress their development. This type of extraction is done by corruption, targeted propaganda, predatory loans, war etc. and impoverishes people, increasing migratory pressure.
2) Richer countries can raise prices in developing countries through purchase of land and property or tourism etc, making it much less affordable for locals to live in their own country.
3) The market for remote work helps but is not capable of even remotely balancing off 1) and 2). It applies to a small fraction of the population and the earning potential is much lower than for local workers.
Then again, immigration is being weaponised by the likes of Soros to disrupt many Western societies and that causes justified opposition. It is absurd that an elderly British couple should have to cross the channel in a dinghy to qualify for state support...
The tragedy in it all is that it results in plebs hating on each other, while the few who are doing BOTH the wealth extraction at state level AND benefit from the weaponised immigration are laughing all the way to the bank.
If you live in the US and swallow all the war mongering propaganda and have no objections to the US army sitting in Syria for years only to steal oil, etc., you deserve all the immigration you will get. And if you just start killing, imprisoning and exploiting people when they try to follow the wealth extracted from their country, you will increase the resentment and criminality among them.
I don't know how to solve this, but do know 'solving' it with nothing but border control is difficult to achieve and dystopian.
1) Powerful countries routinely exploit less powerful ones and actively suppress their development. This type of extraction is done by corruption, targeted propaganda, predatory loans, war etc. and impoverishes people, increasing migratory pressure.
2) Richer countries can raise prices in developing countries through purchase of land and property or tourism etc, making it much less affordable for locals to live in their own country.
3) The market for remote work helps but is not capable of even remotely balancing off 1) and 2). It applies to a small fraction of the population and the earning potential is much lower than for local workers.
Then again, immigration is being weaponised by the likes of Soros to disrupt many Western societies and that causes justified opposition. It is absurd that an elderly British couple should have to cross the channel in a dinghy to qualify for state support...
The tragedy in it all is that it results in plebs hating on each other, while the few who are doing BOTH the wealth extraction at state level AND benefit from the weaponised immigration are laughing all the way to the bank.
If you live in the US and swallow all the war mongering propaganda and have no objections to the US army sitting in Syria for years only to steal oil, etc., you deserve all the immigration you will get. And if you just start killing, imprisoning and exploiting people when they try to follow the wealth extracted from their country, you will increase the resentment and criminality among them.
I don't know how to solve this, but do know 'solving' it with nothing but border control is difficult to achieve and dystopian.