I have two words for you. Tundra. City. That's right; we did it. We took the Canada you love and made it _more_ Canada. Up to _twice_ as cold as the previous generation of cities. More that _six_ times as remote. No other competitor is offering this kind of performance. I want to be clear this is a _generational_ leap over the competition. We're at least five years ahead of other major countries. And, boy, you better believe we patented it!

I'm picturing a rail line that just goes north, and in every town along the way the people are a few years older than the last. You can still live wherever you want, but the subsidies for your age group make it a sweet deal to keep moving down the line toward Centenarian City. Known for its large glue factory and landfills.

Finally my patent for cowcatchers that work inside the train will pay off!

Sounds a lot like Snowpiercer.

This already exists, and is the CN rail line to Hay River. The young folk eventually float down to Edmonton or Calgary.

> How can you export the people who are a burden? You can’t leave them stateless.

Sure you can. The only reason nations avoid allowing people to become stateless is an appreciation of the burden that places on those people. But if we're pursuing a modest proposal where the government shifts its perspective to focus on "realize[ing] higher economic utility for" itself, that becomes less a concern.

At the very minimum you can "export" those low-economic-utility people by sticking them them on a barge and towing it to well into international waters where the currents will take it away (and if you're a nice government, just outside the territorial waters of some other country).

As you know, its impossible to prove a negative, so who's to say they won't wash ashore a luxurious beach resort where they will be welcomed with daiquiris and sexual favors?! I say give them this once in a lifetime chance!

I hear Britain is taking all types and putting them up in 4 star hotels, as long as you land on a British beach by a boat. Just chuck em all that way, problem solved.

I've got an even better idea.

"A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout."

He's being sarcastic.

In fact, it’s a well used strategy to use buses or other types of transportation to move undesirable people out of your area into a different area.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...

Yeah but that works because New York, Chicago, California, and Texas are all the same country.

If you kick out people you don't like and expect them to go to different countries it will end similar to those migrant boats in the Mediterranean.

The link literally shows people sent to multiple different countries

We do have those Starlight Tours ...