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A 2x2: X= acute vs chronic displacement pressure Y = opportunity pull vs crisis push. You get 4 categories of migration flow. The opportunity-pull flows are what create a lot of wealth (gold rushes, tech booms, brain drains) via talent swarming. It’s the same logistics problem.
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You want the IoM to encourage constant flows and circulations, turning crisis-push flows into opportunity-pull flows. Use humanitarian relief actions to automatically bootstrap labor-market efficiency upgrades. Historically this has always happened anyway.
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Half of American science/technology leadership in the last century has been due to refugee-turned-swarm-talent flows. Like Hungarian mathematicians around WW2. We just need to scale up, globalize, and democratize the process.
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There should be an accounting for how much a migrant can give and how much will he be given by the host State. Kind of a return of investment.
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This is a really bad idea. It assumes that states and native residents of them have intrinsic value that requires no justification, but people coming from elsewhere do. Either look at mutual value any of the 3 provide to each other or none.
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In Ancapia, natives should be evaluated that way too, and most people would actually have good measurements. It's accounting for the value of the infrastructure put in place.
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Can't do that without implicitly justifying the violence required to put the infrastructure in place. In general, this kinda of utilitarianism leads to infinite regress and the value of everything becomes ambiguous/ill posed.
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The longer ago the violence, the lesser its effect is today if the same violence happened in a most recent time, so in infinite regress the value tend to zero. I wonder the rate of this decay. The same value decay should be applied for national infrastructure itself.
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Social structures tend to reproduce patterns of oppression like living things. They do not decay like material things. Persistence of systemic memory is a basic problem for ancap and libertarian philosophies. But not for conservatism, which just accepts power as self-justifying
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So after the national-populist global wave, radical progressives most be this internacionalist at least with regards of free movement of people, and maybe center progressives would push the OECD as the seed of a democratic liberal (European sense) world parliament.