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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.
That link is one of the worst links to explaom somethinf I have seen.
That's such a ludicrous claim it can just be rejected.
Gee, if only you could click the other links to the actual papers. Or had literally any curiosity at all. Maybe then you wouldn’t sound like an ignorant lazy child.
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.
That’s a bingo
Borders must be abolished to sustain the capacity for life to exist, not to aid in the continuation of capitalism. Capitalism is a reactionary death cult maintained by hyper-exploitating all forms of life.
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
That’s why I added a link.
And would probably depopulate the worst regimes out there.