Comment by antonvs
12 hours ago
Looking at immigration and refugee numbers around the world, more people take it as an option than you might imagine.
For many of those that don't, that's a choice. Keep in mind that emigrating doesn't necessarily mean adhering to all the bureaucratic procedures involved, all the time.
I lived in my home country and then Botswana for nearly 30 years. I've been in the US for over 30 years. I don't anticipate many more moves.
> I don't anticipate many more moves.
Why do you think so? Most developed and democratic countries are in trouble, lately. Instability is everywhere. T
At around 4% of the world’s population, it is a tiny fraction that hardly matters.
4% is huge. That’s one in every 25 people, about 325 million people in total. The United States contains around 4% of the world’s population, for example.
It’s more than the combined population of the top ten megacities (pop. > 20 million) in the world.
In addition to that, immigrants and refugees are having an outsized influence on politics, and on who gets elected, in many countries around the world.
It’s denying reality to say it “hardly matters”.