> Modern infrastructure can't handle massive population migrations.
Even when migration is allowed, people don't just move to better off-areas en masse. We see this with US states and countries in the Schengen Area. Somehow even Greenfield, CA ($9,226 per capita per year) manages to exist less than two hours from Palo Alto ($56,257 per capita per year).
I think the Schengen treaty approach of slowly adding new countries is a good long-term strategy, and I think US should join it. The population of the Schengen area is already 100M higher than the population of US, and there are several cities there that have higher living standards than anywhere in the US.
Even when migration is allowed, people don't just move to better off-areas en masse. We see this with US states and countries in the Schengen Area. Somehow even Greenfield, CA ($9,226 per capita per year) manages to exist less than two hours from Palo Alto ($56,257 per capita per year).
I think the Schengen treaty approach of slowly adding new countries is a good long-term strategy, and I think US should join it. The population of the Schengen area is already 100M higher than the population of US, and there are several cities there that have higher living standards than anywhere in the US.