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Re:If borders were open by pmarreck on Saturday July 22, 2017 @09:03PM (#14830346)
There is also a finite, not infinite, number of people who would require social welfare for some periods of time. So...
Re:If borders were open by PeterisP on Saturday July 22, 2017 @09:19PM (#14830411)
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.

Re:If borders were open by mnm2 on Sunday July 23, 2017 @02:53AM (#14831174)
> 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?