Thread by @tomaspueyo

Parag and I talked for over an hour about migration and the impact it will have in the 21st century. We covered:

- How current nationalism & the image of immigration is short-sighted historically
- The + borders you have, the - borders you have
- The existence of empires today

https://twitter.com/paragkhanna/status/1448635921314680832

- African pop growth is overestimated
- The winners of the 21st century will be the most successful states at attracting immigrants
- Which countries would benefit from receiving hundreds of millions of migrants, and why. 
- What does the majority think about migration?

- The problem of Gen Z vs. Gen ɑ
- What do Germany and Japan have in common
- The optimal size for a country
- Terraforming Siberia
- How elderly Germans are changing their minds about immigration&seek it instead of fearing it
- How Bulgaria’s immigration approach has is doomed

- Fertility vs. migration
- How migration will influence the # of states and the concept of nation-states: devolution & aggregation of states
- The influence of SEZ in national regulations
- The appearance of new sovereigns and the role of cloud communities

- The 5 Cs: countries, cities, commonwealths, companies, communities
- The most viable way that cloud cities will appear in the real world
- The importance of regulatory competition
- The consequence on taxation ability

- For states that need money, what’s a better alternative than trying to maximize tax revenue
- Why Finnish governments keep having problems linked to taxes
- What are vacant geographies and what are we going to do with them?
- Programmable geography

unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/importance-m…