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Would be genuinely interested in methods for making an area appear less safe

This already exists in the EB-5 visa[0] assuming you start with .5 million funding. You get to stay forever too.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-5_visa

Implying the past is worse and the future better is a misstep[0]. As others have been saying the problem goes away when you have viable careers in X. At some point it will better value to train someone, though I imagine that point is further away then training yourself.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea_of_Progress

To summarise your first paragraph #notallmanagers

There was some slight of hand on my part, the ratios are plotted, not the absolute numbers. The wealth inequality is more interesting than absolute country wealth in the context of the simulation I feel. I agree regarding the debt, that's why net and gross values are included in the chart. For the top 3 it makes no difference. Iceland as an outlier isn't something I would have expected though

Edit: Also the mean probably isn't defined for whatever power law is generating wealth distribution in each country anyway

It's more interesting in chart form: http://imgur.com/GZxm0hD