And lest someone think this is some hippy-dippy bullshit that will cause all kinds of problems, eliminating national borders would add $100 TRILLION to the global GDP, 2/3 of which would be in the Global South.
You’re going to have to provide some kind of evidence for what you surely must acknowledge is an absurdly bold claim.
This appears to be the source of the claim:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.2202/1935-1690.1370/html
2/3 of which would be in the Global South.
And that’s why the borders exist in the first place. The point of money is not wealth, but wealth disparity. Money gives you power over those with less, and borders help enforce that disparity. The poverty is a feature, not a bug.
Guarantee you if we magically eliminated borders world war 3 would erupt the next day as countries desperately redraw them.
Good idea in principle, but not feasible in this day and age. Humans are simply not sociologically advanced enough to sustain that kind of political venture. For starters, humans produce more than enough food to feed the world and yet food insecurity is rampant even in countries with excess.
Open borders will happen when the rest of humanity’s shit has been sorted out, not the other way around.
People divide themselves.
They want to be separated. They want community with people like themselves. They want to be away from people that are not like them. That’s why countries divide rather than join. They only tend to expand through war.
Even when you get immigration. Those immigrants then put themselves in their own communities. It’s like putting extra borders up in a country.
Hippie bullshit.
