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Targeted Migration Campaigns: Why They Will Make a Comeback
Join Simone and Malcolm as they delve into the fascinating world of targeted immigration and its historical and modern implications. From Mennonites being lured to Canada and Mexico with special privileges to modern-day initiatives like the Tulsa Remote program and network states like Balaji's Charter City, discover how demographic shifts and fertility collapse are reshaping global migration patterns. Explore the unique characteristics that make certain populations highly desirable and discuss how future communities can thrive amid changing promises and regime changes. Don't miss this in-depth exploration of what makes a family or community attractive enough for governments to compete for their settlement!
Simone Collins: Hello Malcolm. I'm so glad to be with you today because we are going to talk about something I found quite intriguing the other day.
Picture this. What if countries and cities started fighting over you, offering cash, land, and even your own laws just to get you to move there? From Canada and Mexico, luring Mennonites with special privileges to Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, paying remote workers to relocate targeted immigration is actually quietly reshaping the world, and it has been for.
Maybe hundred years. Yeah. This is a
Malcolm Collins: huge thing. I see many as, as fertility collapse is going on. Mm-hmm. And what a lot of people you know, misunderstand about fertility collapse is they think it's a problem of warm bodies. It's not a problem of warm bodies that we, no. This is about getting
Simone Collins: the people that you want.
To your country to do certain things. Right. But you, the, the whole thing that we need to talk about here is what makes a family or a community so desirable that governments compete to track them. Like people don't realize that this isn't just like, oh, we're opening our borders to, to solve this problem.
No, it's, we want Mennonites, we want bougie couples. Do or jinx we want, but
Malcolm Collins: let's, let's talk about how this problem creates itself, okay? Mm-hmm. So the problem creates itself. It, it's uniquely bad now because it is the communities that are more economically productive and the groups that are more economically productive that are undergoing fertility rate collapse the fastest.
Yeah. But in a historic context, you also had this problem luring one immigrant group into your country was not seen as the same as luring another immigrant group into your country. Totally. Some immigrant groups were seen as. More desirable because they were more desirable. Mm-hmm. They created more economic prosperity.
Mm-hmm. Or did more development than other groups. Mm-hmm. So let's get into which groups are which.
Simone Collins: Yeah, absolutely. And well, and how in a post demographic collapse world, you want your family culture to be such that you basically have your pick of the litter in terms of what. Country or charter city or techno feudalist empire you go to because you want, you want the keys to the kingdom.
You don't wanna be that deformed, post-apocalyptic family living in the borderlands. So just, I wanna also like this is. I think one thing that's important to talk about before we move forward is we recently had a podcast talking about how Hillary Clinton sort of espoused this idea that, well, it's immigrants who have all the kids and the obvious solution to.
Demographic lapse is immigration. And isn't it so crazy that the Trump administration is deporting people? And then one of our podcast followers tweeted us a report in 2000 by the UN Population Division. It was, it was titled Replacement Migration is a, is it a solution to declining in aging populations?
And this is definitely one of the most common rebuttals that we get to. Oh no. Population declined. And then the answer from so many mostly unin
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