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I see this twofold: what happens if net outcome is negative. Who would pay for it?

The same argument could be made for children, but a counterpoint could be made that given family history outcome is more stable than with unknown immigrant.

On the other hand, there is VERY interesting idea: personal immigration responsibility. Just as „mail bride” look for immigrants you’d be willing to sponsor in exchange for retirement.

Probably there are 5 million problems but would put personal stake for sponsor. Limit to 2 per person and people would do a lot of research as their retirement would depend on it. The country might also gain because I’d expect that people would look for high-value individuals that would maximize their chance for well being.

Finally, this could be used to revive drying out regions: bind this to a country/state/administrative region and that could help shaping it in the future.



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