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minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoAnd 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.
minus-squareExcrubulent@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years ago 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.
minus-squareletsgocrazy@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoYou’re going to have to provide some kind of evidence for what you surely must acknowledge is an absurdly bold claim.
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoThis appears to be the source of the claim: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.2202/1935-1690.1370/html
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.
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.
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