Transcript: Image of sign reading, "If I could find a country that didn't take immigrants in I'd move there"
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Interestingly - North Korea exists, but also many of the most successful countries only take a minute number of immigrants, and only very highly skilled or very rich ones. E.g luxembourg, switzerland, monaco(?) and Singapore.
This is because they don't tend to have "gaps to fill" in the economy/workforce and are very small.
I think it's accurate to say that those countries are where people want to move to the most, though, so it is a common desire. The fact that yiu woukd be one of the onky immigrants there is part of the appeal
Switzerland has about 25% foreigners and in Luxembourg the Portuguese minority alone is 15-20%
The GDP per capita of those countries are skewed because most of the workers live outside the city state and commute in. You're just seeing the GDP benefits that cities have over rural areas.
Lol Luxembourg city population is 70% foreigner.
Likewise Singapore is mostly immigrants. This guy is wrong by such a huge degree that I don’t think it’s even a mistake, I think he knows he’s lying. In fact the more I think about it the more I think it’s some weird ironic bit he’s doing that misfired.
I wonder if they're talking in absolute values (not smart in this case, obviously). All those listed countries are rather small, so the same % immigrants would just be a lower number...
There is still freedom of movement for workers between the EU and Switzerland.