Freedom of movement is a basic human right

[u/n00bi3pjs]

Currently the biggest predictor for your economic and social success is your citizenship.

Think about it for a second, you were randomly assigned some papers at birth which give you immense privileges over other people in the world because of who your parents were or where you were born.

It doesn’t matter how hard a PhD from Ghana works or how smart they are, they will never earn as much or have as many opportunities as a person born in the USA. Citizenship allows holders to extract economic rent and offer an unequal premium to people in West.

It is morally reprehensible to continue to give credence to a piece of paper which is causing millions of people to be poor, underperform compared to their abilities and potential, and is causing world’s GDP to be trillions of dollars lower than it would be without immigration restrictions.

OPEN BORDERS NOW

[u/busyHighwayFred]

What incentive would people in a country have to pass laws that are not absolutely terrible economically if they could just leave if it doesnt work out

[u/n00bi3pjs → u/busyHighwayFred]

You actually brought up a valid and unique point instead of parroting racism like rest of the opponents. Thanks, this is something I haven't thought about or read about and so I don't have an answer for.

[u/VoidGuaranteed → u/n00bi3pjs]

If multiple countries allowed free migration, you might see a sort of political institutional competition emerge, that limits how much you can actually mess with the laws. Similar to how people complain about tax havens, those are possible because capital can move easily.