• Abundance114@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Of course, I would want reciprocity. I would support signing mutual open border agreements with poorer countries.

    There’s literally zero incentive for a poorer country to sign this agreement with a richer country.

    Many of the poor countries intelligent, productive population leave, and basically no one from the rich country have any incentive to move to the poor country.

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      2 hours ago

      You must be unaware of:

      • Remittances, a big part of the economy of some countries

      • The whole fucking EU

      • Abundance114@lemmy.world
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        Remittances, a big part of the economy of some countries

        Do remittances outweigh the benefit of having your own productive, successful upper class? Do remittances give you doctors to support your population and engineers to build your infrastructure?

        The whole fucking EU

        Is a union due to the similarity of the members, there is no Nigeria level member country of the EU. The poorest nation in the EU is Hungary/Bulagria that is at 60-70% of the average EU income.

        If Nigeria was a member it would be around the 20% level with next to nothing to offer to the agreement. Everyone that coupe afford to, would immediately move our of Nigeria and bring next to nothing to wherever they moved.

        The United States and Canada could absolutely have such an agreement with a similar level of benefit. The United States and Argentina could not.