Re:Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now...
by jobigoud on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:05AM
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> it'd eventually become unsustainable.
If a sizable fraction of a country started to leave or plan on leaving, it could also force these countries to get their shit together to become more attractive and retain them. Similar to what we have now with counter-measures to brain drains.
Re:Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now...
by meowface on Friday September 13, 2019 @09:00PM
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If anything, I think they'd just be relieved that dissenters are leaving while true believers / "patriotic citizens" are staying put. Makes politics a lot easier. But I'm sure the reaction would vary a lot by country.
Perhaps we'll eventually be in a future where surplus and government and security improvements makes this much easier to manage, and then maybe more countries will start moving to a more open-borders / global union model, but that future is probably at least a century away (probably several centuries). I think we should strive for that future, but that we should also accept pragmatic reality until it happens.
And I do think we should probably increase the amount of families we currently accept every year. Especially war refugees. Totally eliminating national boundaries is very different from that, though.