I'm a Citizen of the Internet, Where's My Passport?

Re:I'm a Citizen of the Internet, Where's My Passport? by true_religion on Monday March 12, 2012 @06:17PM (#3695934)

Using your example, at 30K/year you'd have alot of US/UK students offering to trade places with citizens of other countries.

And if the poor of one country can be incentivized to switch with the rich of another country, wouldn't that just further stratify wealth?

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Re:I'm a Citizen of the Internet, Where's My Passport? by crazygringo on Monday March 12, 2012 @11:23PM (#3696855)

Classical economic theory suggests that the switches would happen only when they were truly advantageous to both parties -- in this case, one would assume that the poor would gain in experience and knowledge, and the rich too. Otherwise neither of them would have made the trade in the first place.

It's certainly debatable, but it would be my hope that it would lead to increases in opportunity for all parties.

But these are exactly the kinds of moral concerns I alluded to...

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Re:I'm a Citizen of the Internet, Where's My Passport? by true_religion on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @03:35AM (#3697401)

Ah I meant stratify in the geographical dimension. In that all the rich people will live in one nation, and all the poor people will live in another nation.

Anyone who is poor in nation A, will trade places with an up and comer in nation B.

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