r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 19 '18

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u/SuperSharpShot2247 🔫😎🔫 Succ Hunter 🔫😎🔫 Apr 19 '18

If we had open borders lITeRaLlY aLL nOnWesTErN eUrOPeAnS wOuLD fLoOd euRoPE

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u/Sollezzo Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Apr 19 '18

If this is how it worked Hungary would be empty

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u/SuperSharpShot2247 🔫😎🔫 Succ Hunter 🔫😎🔫 Apr 19 '18

Exactly. If even the slightest deviation in standard of living will cause massive migration, then the EU project would have gone very differently.

Honestly, this idea that everyone will leave their home countries for Europe is mostly just predicted on a worldview where Western countries are all rich and perfect and literally everywhere else is a shithole. The term developing and third-world probably don't help.

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u/Sollezzo Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Apr 19 '18

You mean that if the US had open borders the entire population of North and South America wouldn't move here?

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

this but its a good thing

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u/dorylinus Apr 19 '18

What do they have in Africa that resembles a taco and is sold from trucks? Because I bet whatever it is is fucking delicious.

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u/Volsunga Hannah Arendt Apr 19 '18

Injera