Re:If borders were open
by andys627 on Saturday July 22, 2017 @08:57PM
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No. What do you base this on?
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Based on the fact that there is finite money for social welfare.
There is also a finite, not infinite, number of people who would require social welfare for some periods of time. So...
If we spread out all the worldwide social welfare resources among all the people worldwide who would require social welfare, the average would be so far below the current levels of first world social welfare that it's basically the same as the system had been destroyed.
It's not about finite vs infinite, it's about the notion that currently "the good social infrastructure" in the first world can cover a small portion of the global population, doesn't have much excess capacity, and is obviously not sufficient to provide a comparable level of life/service/whatever to everyone in the world. Dividing it equally would mean a regression to the global average which is unacceptably low compared to first world standards, so the first world would never accept this.
> If we spread out all the worldwide social welfare resources among all the people
We need to do this, everything else is nationalism
Unf. I don't think your calculations sum up
And yes: It's called "costs of living" and you ignore it (to be higher in the west") and then you blame them (for your own wishful ignorance)
Where do you live?