Among other reasons: if you’re sufficiently networked and possess the means and technology (mostly social technology) to successfully emigrate, you are probably accepting disimprovements along multiple axes in doing so. The people who improve on most axes mostly can’t emigrate.
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e.g. If one is unemployed, presently on SSDI, and has no university education, there are plausible reasons why one would prefer being in Berlin or Tokyo to St. Louis. One likely doesn’t consider that an option and, if one did, one would be denied permission to go (licitly).
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(Aside: One of the big drivers of movement of people the last few years is the smartphone, because it turbocharged the feedback loop which distributes the social technology necessary to immigrate successfully.)
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