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throwaway29292 | 8 years ago

Makes me wonder if this comment will age well, after around 50-100 years.

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jimmyk|8 years ago

It will age very well. Successful countries that behave otherwise don't stay successful for that long. If a country doesn't put its interests first, who will?

int_19h|8 years ago

Broadly controlling human migration at the border is a relatively recent thing (as in, just over a century). Taking US as an example where this sort of thing is a controversial political topic today - in most of the 19th century, if you had access to any means of transportation necessary to get there (including walking across the border from, say, Mexico or Canada), that was all you needed to become a legal resident. Yet the country did just fine.

So it's not at all a given that the current system with tightly regulated borders, visas, conditions of residence etc will still be in place in 100 years.

vetinari|8 years ago

Don't worry about that.

Neither of us will see that, and it would take something very drastic to change how the humans behaved for millennia.