Thank you so much for making this video. It resonated deeply with me as someone from a third-world country who had to deal with VFS. A few years ago, I was accepted into a research internship, but after multiple attempts, spending hundreds of dollars (thousands in my local currency), and navigating the obtuse visa requirements-which are somehow both convoluted and generic-my visa request was rejected. The reason? "Lack of travel experience." As if I was supposed to "grind" travel in lower-tier countries before being deemed worthy of visiting a first-world country.
You've basically discovered a really key problem with the UK privatisation of what ought to be public services. I guess it's partly natural monopoly but it's more than that too. Prisons, railways, immigration and literally more sectors and services than I could ever list (and looking up would just make me really, really sad) wherein you could never "vote with your wallet" because you have no choice but to use the service there. A prisoner can no more complain about how G4S handles their prison than a railway customer can insist that another rail company provide trains on a line which is contracted by another company. It's really fucked up but I think a large part of it really boils down to the old trope of "we learned it from watching you", with 'you' being the USA.
It is the nature of capitalism. It cannot create on steal and destroy. With the rising difficulty of stealing from less developed nations, the only stuff for the rich to steal is the systems from the imperial core.
@@Rosencreutzzz Much to my regret, yes. They exist in a nebulous space of bureaucratic evil along with SoftBank and gulf state sovereign investment funds.
The concept of the Walled World is really interesting to me, especially the way I personally fit into it. It ties into the segment about international travel becoming a sort of a blood privilege. I'm a non-White Brazilian (I've seen people over here call my position in the racial hierarchy "Schrodinger's Brown" which I just think is an amusing name). Going through my mother's family there's quite a bit of Italian ancestry. My family had the right to request Italian citizenship and I got it and I have the passport. It's just interesting to me that despite being a POC from the Walled-Off World, it's bureaucratically much easier for me to enter Europe than many White Americans.
I've been meaning to grab that italian citizenship from my great great grandparents, but don't want to deal with the absolute bureaucratic nightmare lol
I know that Brazil had a few different immigration waves from Italy. It's funny to me that about half the Brazilians I've met in real life have Italian grandparents. It might have something to do with relative wealth of white immigrant families or something, but I genuinely don't know enough about it to say anything definitive. Just curious is all.
@@Rosencreutzzz I can't claim to know a lot about the history, I'm basically basing it on my understanding from school In the late 19th century, as the Monarchy lost power and was eventually replaced by the First Republic, the big political group that emerged and dominated the country until the 1930s were the wealthy landowners from the State of São Paulo. They made a lot of (and I mean a lot of money) exporting coffee and they basically kick-started the country's industrialization with that money. But they were really racist and they didn't want to pay salaries to their former slaves and there were too many of them anyway, the country needed fresh White blood to become successful. So they started a massive immigration campaign. There were many foci throughout the country but São Paulo and the Southernmost states were the biggest draw. The state, and the City of São Paulo in particular, came to dominate the Brazilian economy and eventually (late 1990s and early 2000s) a white middle class appeared that actually had expectations of traveling abroad (mostly Florida, for Disney World and other parks and shopping in Miami) and sought English language education. Those white people were in large part the descendants of those old immigrant workers. So that's why I think they're the most likely group for English speakers to meet, they're the ones who travel abroad the most and access the Anglocentric Internet the most. I don't know why Italians were the largest number but we also got a bunch of Germans, Spaniards, Slavs from all over, a lot of ethnicities from the Ottoman Empire (Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Syrian and Lebanese Arabs) and a **shitton** of Japanese people. That's the general (probably outdated) idea
I was sort of in a similar situation, being born practically just meters away from the Schengen borders in Ukraine, yet still having to constantly worry about visas and passports, for most of my life if I ever wanted to live somewhere that's more economically stable, a place where "I could have a future". First I wanted to at least get into the EU, so I applied for uni in Hungary, being a native speaker the process was still not easy, but I managed. Soon I was already applying for citizenship because of programs designed to help (the traditionally conservative voting) Hungarian minorities outside the borders vote in elections, a law passed by the ruling party a few weeks into their rule so they can stay in power for longer and get more votes, so even while giving new opportunities to people they're still just using our kind as tools to keep them in power. But I also have German ancestry going back 3-4 generations, and while our first application for German citizenship failed when I was still little, we tried again a decade later and me and my family succeeded, so I'm actually a German citizen now too. Meanwhile if you happen to be born in Germany to Turkish parents, you can live all your life in Germany without being a citizen, without being able to vote, if you don't have the money to go through the paperwork and fees for "citizenship via naturalization" when living there all their life, which is also just insane to me. What will happen when we'll be facing millions of climate refugees in the coming decades? Sadly I'm rather pessimistic that there will be any sort of systemic allowance for empathy with people who are just trying to make this continent their new home.
It might be because it's out of whatever youtube considers my typical genre, or also cause I use bad words and *algorithmically* bad words, but who knows. I rely on the kindness of others (read: pls random big leftist youtuber share me) to spread things where I can.
I'm going to try to change that by sharing. It is dense in the sense of the amount of information that it contains and can be overwhelming so I understand if it would be intimidating to some
Please make video on Blackstone. I want to go into any rabbit hole that explore such arcane and malicious eldricth horror that summoned by esoteric ritual that we currently call 2008 market crash.
*Welcome to the VIP Comments Section* Isn't neoliberalism fun? 🙃 This is a great video. I like that you're switching between "multiple lanes" with your channel, as I think it suits you well. (The "wisdom" that one should pigeonhole oneself as a creator to appease the algorithm also kinda pisses me off.) Also: with regard to the "Walled World" (this was my first time hearing the term, kudos for bringing it up) how do you feel about the "imperial core/periphery" terminology? I kinda like "Walled World" as it conveys the hostility of the Anglosphere and Europe to outsiders, and also is kinda like a "Walled Garden" as you mention. But "imperial core" makes it clear that imperialism is ongoing to this day.
Oh I tend to use the core/periphery thing but sometimes that gets really blurry because it kind of conflates empires. Like, China and Russia absolutely do imperialism but they’re not as “neocolonial” and that complicates things- they’re not the West Empire that is neoliberalism. We then have to understand there are many polities, so to speak, many cores. And that could work, but for the sake of understanding migration the walled world is what I chose.
I wonder if the problem the USA is facing, with immigration can be explained with the lack of people crossing the border down south, by people being immigrated underneath our noses and blamed on the southern border! I mean it makes sense and if you was trying to import a bunch of people a scapegoat would be a necessary thing.
lack of people at the southern border??? What world do you live in, there are endless caravans of thousands upon thousands crossing that border and the number is increasing
Excellent work here, really laid out these complex ideas in a way that was easy to digest. Your voiceover is so smooth, too. I also appreciate that you don't claim to know how exactly this problem should be resolved. It seems head-crushingly complicated to get out of this hole we've dug. It just is not going to be simple
I have gotten both French and British visas and the process was so different. The French process was slower in many ways, and less "updated" (their websites quite useless and such, not much digital integration), but cheaper, and in many ways "democratic" in that sense. The British one felt fancier and more organised, but it was so ridiculously expensive, and it felt dystopian to have to pay for things in what should be a public service.
Thank you for introducing me to the concept of the walled world. I am from outside of it and currently my main goal in life has been leaving my country and moving to Europe. While researching how, I discovered how hard the process actually is and how the system is stacked against me. It really does feel like a wall and I realize that some of my peers, though equally deserving, would not be able to plan a move like this by things outside of their control.
@@bisque6448because we generate wealth as well as your natinal brethren. Even better in some cases. What makes you think that you deserve your nation, just because you are born in it? Why not better men and women replace you?
@ashutoshsethi6150 because I've been raised in the culture that made mu country the way it is. You have no such familiarity, so it's up to people like me to decide whether or not you can be valuable addition to that culture.
I like that summary towards the end, that borders prevent laborers from seeking better conditions, even from US citizens, seeking better conditions in the Nordic countries, where working at a McDonalds still means you get healthcare, so that the owners of the means of production have this additional leverage to keep wages and labor standards down. Countries within the walled world accept goods produced by sweatshop labor but not people fleeing the conditions that created sweatshop labor.
The West is dominated by liberal immigration systems, immigration to the west results in wage stagnation or wage depression, worsening working conditions and worsening training for the average worker in a Western country. You claim that Western countries do not accept people who flee poor labour conditions, this is false. western countries accept many of these people, however the driving for is for the benefit of elite not ordinary people. It is true that the West consumes much in the way of good produced by those working for little compensation and poor conditions. I would however add to this that this has come about through almost a slight of hand, that has sought to deprive the western working class of work and displace their labour with that of more easily exploitable workers. This has been a confusing change for ordinary westerners who now find themselves trying to purchase items that were once produced by uni ones workers sometimes even a stones throw from their home, and instead find they pay marginally less to buy something made in a pet of the world their know little about. It remains that the benefit of this is not for the common people of the West. The Walled World metaphor invokes something of fortress, which is a confusing a unnecessary metaphor for explaining straightforward class interests. The metaphor seems to be used to try and suggest that, on the one hand the walled world is not about territorial distinct nations because this is neoliberal after all, and on the other hand concerns of damaged national identity are used to uphold the walled world system. There is truth in this, however the common people of Western nations are reimagined as not having legitimate concerns, somewhat benefiting from Thai system and as continually supporting the very elites who benefit from this system the most. Rather than acknowledging wage stagnation, worsening job security, the irony of increased labour shortages that often result from liberal immigration systems and of course the cultural and political stresses.
One might argue that "walls" like this are a necessary coping mechanism for how easy movement is now that global travel is a so fast and cheap, instead of taking months of travel time. But I'm pretty sure most empires could care less who was on their land as long as they were working it or paying taxes. They'd be more worried about all their peasants abandoning them.
The "funny" thing is that unless it was like a city wall or such, walls never were really effective to keep people out, even back in ancient times. A wall is only a temporary hindrance and if it's not full of defenders it's overcome eventually
We should also keep in mind the number of times when invasive species came to a new area and had massive ecological impacts. Like, I can’t exactly blame Hawaii or Australia for having some pretty serious border controls because of all the times people brought new stuff to them and had it destroy native crops and fauna.
Damn, really happy the algorithm gave me this channel lol. Great video! My partner and I have been dealing with a Belgian visum application and this explains so much about why the whole process is so unnecessarily complicated, wasteful, expensive and obtuse.
Having been through UK immigration process with my Australian wife, its a nightmare - we ended up taking the British government to court over a rejected visa renewal. The incompetence and ignorance is staggering.
I had never heard of VFS before, probably because I live in the UK and haven't moved. Really interesting video on something I've not been exposed to much!
This came out as I've been thinking about borders and their use as of late. Anyways, it's always nice to see you upload, have some algorithm interaction.
Living in the Balkans just outside of the "walled world" can be a real pain in the ass. You are educated, but not enough, you are white, but not enough, you are cultured, but not enough, you are civilized, but not enough. And I have studied in three EU countries, two of them even coming from the same f-ing communist background, we are treated not like immigrants from Africa, but like idiots who were always there just being used as economical canon fodder, not to mention when you go to Germany or Switzerland. The best case scenario is that you will have enough money to come back to see your family every month. These are systems that are well indoctrinated into the way the governments work, but they are playing "nice", so they outsource the "evil" side job so they can still look like nice guys. "Look, UK haven't rejected your visa, it's the evil private business we outsource to". It is all well thought out by the government. And it's not just the UK, it's all other countries. Sure, maybe it is a little bit easier to move abroad now than in past 20 years, but even if you move, the immigration policy is forcing you to do some shady things in order to survive, and that is why immigrants are shown in a bad light.
Free movement was less problematic in states without social welfare and health provision. Once there are such services and a perceived obligation to preclude destitution and provide medical care, some sort of exclusion is inevitable.
We can teach immigrants to take care of themselves and provide services to themshelves, and even buy up land using their labour. Maybe even loan them, and use them for indentured servitude if the fail to repay the principal adjusted to inflation. I agree with slowing down immigration till welfare state catches up and they generate enough wealth to sustain themshelves. I don't agree with profiting off of it to an extent that the people most poor and vulnerable and therefore most ready for exploitation get shuttled to some other country, to the detriment of the neoliberal dream of prosperity.
For some reason youtube thinks im interested in what you have to say, and its right. Ive spent the past 4 days binging every video on your channel, but this one earned the sub (god thats awful to say im performatively sorry). Your interests are my interests amigo. This shit hurts my soul but im glad that your rage at vhs was so white hot that this was a calm, rational dissection of neoliberal evil rather than inarticulate screaming into the void. Maybe its both. Anyway thanks.
A place I used to work (a Fortune 500 company) was based out of New York City not because of some particular benefit to the company, but because the former CEO didn’t want to leave New York when he took the job, and I think they had a small office there at the time so they just put his office there and made it the headquarters even though it’s maybe the 5th largest office owned by the company. Or at least that’s what I was told.
I agree with the majority of your talking points, but feel like some things weren't fleshed out. Like how a captive labour force within a border leads to lower wages, as well as how pre ww1 travel was less restrictive, but this also had a far lower social impact due to the lack of public services like universal health care, public housing, even sewerage etc. Thus putting the economic burden of migration solely on the migrant. Also how these lax border policies to say the US were used to fuel bodies colonisation and manifest destiny
The passport spiel is misleading at best, you needed signed documents by the king and common use of wax seals for authentication so no, visas aren't remotely new. That section of history you reference was an anomaly historically and only really existed within Europe for those that could actually afford it (very few). The fallout of WW1 cause huge numbers of migrants throughout Europe ad was an attempt to monitor an control it. Again see my first point about walled cities etc, they didn't just let anyone in and had vetting systems and in the case of wars that cause displacements people were often just cast out into the wilderness. Trust was built up within Europe that allowed for the free movement you reference which was broken by the failure of civil communications and outright government sanctioned assassinations causing WW1. TL;DR forms of travel documents / proof of citizenship etc have existed since at least the middle ages in Europe and existed in the roman empire but sure go on and say how they are a modern creation. Travel was rare too and expensive so few could do it without dieing to bandits
Visas as we know them are an entirely new invention. Travel documents existed in the past, that isn't denied, but borders were nowhere near as secure and 'citizenship' was more of a social privelege than a civic norm. Is that it? The video retains its integrity.
As an American the strictness at which Visa's are enforced has always felt "wrong," or prehaps contrary my common sense understanding of the world. I'm not talkng about needing approval to enter a country (even if I think it should be less strict), because it make sense for countries to want to screne for dangerous or hostile actors trying to enter their territory. I'm talkng only being allowed to stay in country you've been approved to enter for a limited amount of time unless you can find a justification for why you should be allowed to stay longer. I am a resident of the state of New Hampshire (NH), I pay taxes to the NH state and vote in NH elections, but I can at anytime travel to a different state (say Oklahoma) and spend however long I want there. As long as I am abiding by state and federal law and not inconviencing state residents, the state of Oklamona won't care that their is an NH resident effectively crashing in their boarders. I can even acess state owned locations like public parks without any red tape, even though none of my taxes went towards developing or maintaning it. So the idea that I can't just travel to another country that is not hostile to towards my own and stay there moving from hotel to hotel untill I personally choose to go home, that my access to a country has has a countdown like its a subscription free trial, feels counterintuitive to my prior experience of how traveling works. This feels closer to enttering a privately owned property in America than it does going to djfferent state, and that feels really grows in a way that's difficult to articulate. Like a travel visa is less a stamp of approval that says "this person unlikely to inventionally break our laws" and more like a admission ticket to the *government's* land in away that, I feel, undermines the idea that a goverment is extention of people and not the owner of people.
The biggest problem is, as always, that free movement from abroad would cripple any nation that tries it. It's already become relatively common for rich people in countries like China to move to Australia or New Zealand to buy houses and inflate the cost of living. As another example, I live in a third world country and if we allowed free immigration the same thing will happen. There's already been an increase in people coming from China, Korea or Japan and even from the West in recent years. These people are not really a problem as they work productive jobs but if free access was allowed the rich, as mentioned, would migrate here. This would turn our country into nothing more than a retirement home for rich people from other countries while everything becomes increasingly unaffordable for locals.
Some ad I've been getting recently; "Queensland is loosing investors" "Keep Queensland competitive"... god I hate region specified ads, but this one, just feels targeted, like I gotta do my part... hAh, I wasn't even born here! What does keeping this place competitive matter to me? Well, I should probably keep my mouth shut actually... they might come after me for saying this... who knows though, probably won't, but to be safe... I'll state now that I don't really know the situation, which is true, the situation that would lead to someone making an ad about Queensland allegedly struggling to remain competitive, meanwhile, they've got, well... wealth... of course, competition isn't just about maintaining the status quo, it's about continued expansion... never ending expansion...
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This video is awesome in a way that some left-tube videos are not, in that I feel like I could show it to my Fox News addled father and his disdain for bureaucracy and [definitely atrophied] sense of justice would have him agreeing with the points in it more than his programming would normally allow.
This is my favorite part of the video "Don’t borders make less and less sense with a globally integrated world and an allegedly global economy? Why keep up the borders, these massive institutional barriers to self-made men, these things that indirectly create privilege by blood, in a world that supposedly promotes equal opportunities? Why is it that being born to EU parents, of blood descent from a place you’ve never been somehow makes it far easier to access most of an entire continent? What is that if not privilege by blood, a supposedly eradicated"
See, here in Europe, that privilege involves millennia of my ancestors' blood that stained the soil beneath me. We've never said we want to eradicate it. It wasn't earned by me but it was for my benefit. Strange and alien concept - that you can (and would want to) better the world of your offspring. We used to call that "progress" before the word was miss used to mean a new generation of iphone.
The video reminded me somewhat of a video by the TH-camr eliquorice going in depth on the movie Coco, which talked more in depth about the social implications of our current border situations (both the implications faced by those outside the Walled World but also how our media tends to portray our current global systems.) It’s only slightly related but does feel like a good side tangent to the topics discussed in this video.
They copyright and make the document inaccessible because there is a remedy in there, as no government or person can lawfully control another individual without their being a remedy for the individual if it infringes upon their natural rights.
I know this video is a year old but im not a gamer and because of my TH-cam tendencies the algorithm gods have granted you unto me. Great video thank you 😊
I cackled bleakly at the fact I didn't have to guess about the Disney question (I live in Newark, DE, so it's kiiiiind of a meme around here at this point). While I know it's improbable (for now), I always worry what might happen if US State governments were given the power to deny entry/exit from and to other states. Right now there are no border patrols (not counting Alaska and Hawaii for obvious geographical location reasons), you can hopscotch back and forth across any state border you please so long as you're a legal US resident. But it's sadly not difficult to imagine the "illegal alien" and "drug trade" and "human trafficking" paranoia reaching a point where states started campaigning for their own closed borders, their own walls. Imagine Ohio checking the ID of everyone coming in from their more westerly state lines, or requiring additional background checks of anyone looking to buy a house who happened to be moving from a poorer state with supposedly higher crime rates. Right now that would be very legally difficult to accomplish, but I can't imagine there aren't politicians who want that and companies like Blackstone who would jump on the opportunity to monetize such a thing. When I first became old enough to vote, it would have been unthinkable to require two forms of state-issued ID and a facecheck to do so. Now that's the reality in more than a few states. All it takes is enough moneyed interests manipulating enough people to make it happen. I don't really have a point here other than this video stirred up one of my more persistent and uncomfortable brainbugs. It's a good thing to be aware of, but I don't have a solution for it, either.
A really interesting video, and excelent work my friend. If you wish to do more videos on borders, may I suggest looking into the companies that proffit from getting cheap labour to western markets? Like, I am not sure if you know, but there are companies who facilitate getting a 3-6 month work visa, in places like the UK, in order to get cheap labour in their markets, usually in exchange for a portion of the labourers salary. I would be extreamly interested to see hiw these work.
3:39 Opening up tendering to private firms to run services isn’t a transition into privatisation that seconds earlier you alluded to, since the state (or whichever authority holds ownership of the services) calls the shots, often with expectations to meet. The transition only occurs when the authority wishes to pursue expansion of private involvement within the sector of that service. For my easy way to explain, I’ll use railways as an example: Transport for London (run by the Greater London Authority) owns the London Overground and Crossrail brands, which are suburban railway networks serving the passengers of London. Private firms get contracted to run the service on their behalf, but branding, timetables and ticketing are dealt by TFL. This leaves the firms with the responsibility to recruit staff and run an efficient service meeting performance targets. Failure to do so results in contract termination and it goes to tender again. A similar system exists for London’s buses too. 3:52 Come on, “lets a function fail”? I find a hard time understanding how wishing for the private firms to compete against state owned utilities is a sign that said state companies are failing. Railway networks in Central and Western Europe, which are mostly state owned by their respected countries, allow “open access operators” (ie. completely private operators) to run on their tracks for a fee, of which this is mandated by the European Union’s Second Railway Package, layering several directives on how European rail should be shaped. Those state rail companies have hardly fallen to hard times. Even if one takes into account the facing challenges of rail companies in the current state of affairs, the state owned companies are doing much better than some of their counterparts in Northern America and Britain. 4:05 (First paragraph) No it isn’t, for reason I have explained above. Otherwise many European countries would be seen as totally inept for letting private firms run trains alongside state owned trains. 4:34 Businesses offer products or services, and putting it the other way round, products or services are offered by businesses, therefore services ARE a business. Whether they’re privatised or not and whether they’re profitable or not is irrelevant to this statement. Even then, why would it be a concern to you that a service finds itself profitable? That means it can cross-subsidise loss-making in a sector (for my example, the profits of intercity mainline routes cross-subside the costs of rural branch lines). The more I went on watching the video, the more insane you become. Your explanation of privatisation is one-sided with a very negative view upon it. And considering it’s the introduction, it should put off a lot of people.
Pedantic fluff. There's no substance to your argument and it's telling that you go after small details because you can't argue against the core idea of the video.
Why should an explanation not be one sided? Bias is not a bad thing, you are conceited for implying that you aren't biased. Privatisation almost always is a bad thing for almost everyone except the small minority who own the benefitting company. It's a form of corruption by another name.
The difference between railways and immigration is that the customer in the former is a citizen which the state has a duty to serve or get outvoted, so his opinions matter to the private corporation that agreed to the tender requirements presented by the government. The 'customer' in immigration control sector has no rights and place to demand a fair trial, he has no legal rights that are restricting the corporation from screwing him over for profits or vindictive fun or plain old incompetence. The lever necessary to keep a private corporation robust is accountability, which is lacking if a corporation serves cattle, in the same way cattle cannot protest against being killed and stripped for meat.
The crux of neoliberalism here, rent seeking and deniability. I saw another example of the plausible deniability that privatisation offers this winter in the UK. 'British' Gas is a privatised energy supplier who has been subcontracting out the forced installation of prepayment meters in the homes of people who fall behind on their extortionate bills. When it came to light that these subcontractors were brazenly flouting regulations on exactly who and who cannot have one of these meters installed (and behaving appallingly towards said people), the multimillionaire CEO of BG could go on TV and waffle nonsense about how this 'isn't who we (BG) are' and how he was 'shocked and angry' to learn of the methods by which his own company makes money. You employed them! Why doesn't the buck stop with you? Basically, I fucking hate this island. Great video and channel tho, was very interesting to go from watching your recent Bannerlord video to this.
Yet another amazing video. Given the views of the Home secretary, I only see the immigration process becoming more difficult over the next few years. I wish someone would question Braverman when she talks about her own parents immigration to Britain as to how the process has changed since that happened. When you take away all the legal routes, desperate people will use illegal ones. The only way to stop people dying in small boats crossing the channel is to let them on the large ones.
Or stop the flow entirely, considering over a million foreigners entered our country jusy last year. It's too much. Its always been too much. And we're suffering their presence.
@@T_Dun source on that? Thats more people than most British cities swarming so big you could see them on satellites in space, aka sounds ridiculous and made up. You realise the vast majority, almost near entirety of both the population and population increases ate native British? If theres too many people we need to look at our sex education and emigration support, not scream vaguely across the Channel
1. It's a privilege, not a right to go to someone elses country. It is their right to deny you for any or no reason. 2. If you can't game a byzantine bureaucratic public-private partnership system, you might just not be able to properly integrate in Britain.
@@matthewmannion4227 Supposedly yes. But in reality is the byzantine public-private (most likely overpaid) employees. Great Britain makes me sad and very happy at the same time...
I’m commenting this before watching the “Why are Borders?” segment so that I don’t forget it; sorry if you ended up addressing this. Although most often used especially in current times to maintain the global-capitalist power structures, I think there is ironically a bit of an anti-imperialist justification for borders as well. If Cuba, for example, had open borders this whole time, I imagine that would have spelled disaster, as US entities could have snuck in and undermined what was going on there to instead favor US interests (slowly rebuilding a de facto slavery-based sugar economy for American consumption and American corporate profit, and the like). Similarly, I think borders serve _some_ purpose as a containment strategy. It feels yucky to say this as it’s often a fascist talking point, but as an actual example: if the borders Turkey had with Iraq and Syria weren’t militarized, ISIS might have claimed significantly more lives. This does still operate with some degree of nation-centrism, as it allows those “safe” adjacent countries to more easily ignore the problem, which would not be the case if problems threatened to spread fully everywhere, but I do think it _might_ have justification if it saves more lives. Sadly, neither of these are often what borders are used for nowadays, so both points are somewhat moot. Borders obviously aren’t full proof, and as I’m sure you know there’s innumerable cases of imperialist powers being able to project authority and influence across them anyways, while at the same time using strong borders’ innately protective potential to give those imperialist aims license to cause _more_ problems because it’s less likely to spread to home territory… I guess my two arguments in favor of borders are mainly theoretical, with reality being much more upsetting. Still, I think there’s a bit of merit to both as there have been at least a handful of times where these properties saved lives. At the same time, maybe vaporizing all borders and forcing humanity to share one lifeboat would save even more… (None of this is to dispute what you’re going to talk about regarding the origin of borders and their intended/primary functions, by the way. I am *not* arguing modern border systems were invented to curtail imperialism lmao. Just wanted to point out their very niche benevolent potentials.)
Would you consider Poland to be part of the walled world, part of those walled out, or something else? (in between? both? neither? etc.) I admittedly don’t know much about Poland but I know it’s a significant source of immigrants to other European countries while at the same time being obtuse to immigration from countries furthest east and south. (I think a similar question could be posed for Mexico- walled by the US while itself walling the countries of Central America-, but its economic relationship with the US and the influence of US pressure on Mexico’s border decisions makes me think it sits squarely in the walled out section.)
(Also of course feel free to correct me and/or argue back. I’m honestly not very versed in this topic; I’ve just read a bit on US interventionism and took the first week of a class on neo-imperialism, so I don’t think I have a strong foundation to stand on with my claims here)
Poland and Mexico are both examples of where it's tricky, for differing reasons. In the case of Mexico, the issue is that Mexico is actually in the top twenty world economies rather consistently, as is Brazil and Indonesia, partially because they're populous and larger countries for their respective regions. But they still don't make migration easy because of that. Again, Mexico has that economic relationship, but the US Mexico border is tangibly walled at some points in ways Canada simply isn't. Poland, on the other hand is part of the EU, a part that has been included in free migration, no less. That was actually an implicit issue in Brexit-- the face the supposed "migrant invasion" was usually depicted as brown "third worlders" when in reality Polish migrants from within the EU were a concern UKIPpers did their best to speak around-- because it wasn't as "scary". In the video you can actually see a chart where it shows that Polish nationals still make up a sizable chunk of UK migrant populations. So I'd say they're in it. The wall is expanding as time and, likely, neoliberal guarantees are extended. That said, race, or at least, "whiteness" will likely continue to be a factor, but that's a whole nother conversation. To your other comment, I'd mostly just say that you're quite right that borders have to be deployed defensively at times. This is also why you sometimes see the smug contrarian argument of "oh yeah if borders are bad then why is [historically oppressed and isolated group OR literally "Wakanda"] allowed to have them without question?!" I'd like to maybe find a space to talk about borders more holistically than this video, all said.
That is why i don't trust the birder is a fascist things, one of the most efficient way to not be bothered by external problem when trying to solve your internal problem is to be cut off from outside interference, cuba couldn't have survived as a state without this, does vietnam should have been invaded by the by china because it was a Bit more similar than with the US ? Should sri lanka give away its independence so that indian nationalist can finally be happy ? If you think removing border is removing allegiance or nationality or cultural disparity, well it won't because it was there in the first place and its for that that nation state existed and thrived If you think removing border is gonna be make everyone more equal, not at all, its gonna make everyone be at the mercy of the most populous or powerfull ethnie, culture, group, community wich will dominate every other group
I am not satisfied with the economic aspect of the video. I believe that the biased nature of the writer for the subject (which was admitted within the video) led to this lack of substance which was what drew me to it. Mainly it failed to explain the reasons for the change of pricing and how were the old a new price tags created(based on what equelibriums and under what models were they created.). The creator should also take a look at the previous costs and current costs of the sector and of course, compare them before and after Brexit. To assess how effective it is one must get more data from within the company which would be easy to assume would be unreachable. There for to make any form of argument for or against its effectiveness would be as of now, just devaluing the work rather than adding to it. In terms of the last section based on borders that part was unneeded since it had little that can be contributed as of now to the subject. Since the fact of citizenship and borders are a given within modern communities to make a stance regarding it and to devote such a major part of the video to something that doesn't really amount to more than idealism and projecting one's opinion rather than covering the subject (assuming the subject and goal of the inquiry here was to cover the privatized sector of migration within England) is rather fruitless. I can say that the part devoted to this was wasted if not damaging to the whole work. Finally, I would like to ask the writer's thoughts on free trade and what it entailed and also get his thoughts on the subject of economic history and finally his qualifications on the subject of economics.
Empireal countries usuallt told colonies who could come into the colonized country. The private company is just another form of empire. The east India company was a private-for-profit company. For the goose, then, for the gander.
Maybe you want to wait to make sure there isn't WWIII before moving to the UK. And wait until after winter ends at least with gas and possible power cuts on account of the war in the East.
Right, okay, let's accept that premise. Do you think "the people" are determining anything here, or is a private multinational tax haven for-profit corporation determining things?
@@Rosencreutzzz corporations are run by people. Being part of a corporation doesn't make someone separate from society. A corporations activities are underwritten by a government who itself draws it's legitimacy from the consent of the governed....... i.e "the people". If the people don't like what a corporation is doing then the burden is on them to use their national self determination to elect a government that will rein in that corporations excesses.
@@emperorclaudius5499and then the new government will eschew the profits that the old government made? How would changing the head reliably change the circulatory system that exploits to feed the head? The head will set a new normal that makes the circulatory system 'natural' over time, regardless of whether it is the head or the circulatory system in control.
i love how shit my country is that i only found out about this shit bc of youtube. i truly thought he just fucked outselves over with privatization. i guess thats why i never get to see my intl. friends here.
Immigration might weaken the power of employees, and emigration might increase it. Oftentimes the lastest immigrants are the ones that are most against further immigration as they see it fit to protect their societal position. Professions often do the same thing by limiting the supply of authorized workers through arcane rules and denying foreign diplomas from counting.
I have had the misfortune of having to use VFS 'services' in order to obtain a student visa to Finland as a UK Citizen. The excessive fees, poor organisation, and utterly shameful standard of service at their visa centre in London is nothing short of a complete scandal. I have seen some very desperate people stuck in endless lines and waiting rooms being badgered and treated very poorly by staff. I had to visit the centre 4 times over the course of 2 months, and every single visit took at least 3 hours in which I was effectively stuck in this bureaucratic nightmare trying to just... pick up my approved visa. Emails went completely ignored and trying to even schedule an appointment or contact them over the phone was a herculean task which I guarantee would be essentially impossible if English wasn't your first language. I never want to go through that crap again - and I really, really despise the way that other people, mainly people who aren't UK citizens, are being treated by this awful company. It took direct intervention from the Finnish embassy to even be informed of the delivery of my visa. And when I picked it up, VFS had the audacity to charge me £65 for no apparent reason. Truly awful
The inclusion of the palestinian wall is kinds of intresting here. The government by far rather we go live in the west bank than in Europe, and in the same vein, Israelies like palestinians being available for manual labour, but because the whole intifada thing we started importing workers from the global south under exploititive terms to do that instead.
Yes but if immigration was efficient who would hire all the immigration officers and legal council. Inefficiency is a response to the creative destruction of capitalism. It’s the very same reason why fascism develops intense militarism. Because violence is inherently not only unproductive but counter productive to advancing productive forces.
I think that there is something to be said about how the walled-world shilds countries within from what is basicaly a consecuence of their actions. Given colnies and interventionism. In all the cases i can think of, migrants suffer because of reactionary movements created from the suffering of colonial rule of suffer from the disadvantage of bein born in a country who is economically cohiseve for a shorter period of time. (Sorry for any misspelled words not a native speaker). Hopefully i still made myself understood.
Besides labor, what do you think of criminals? Obviously not all are criminals, but a few bad eggs make bias and racism occur for the detriment of all.
The British empire unlawfully went where it pleased and allowed British people to commit whatever horrors and atrocities they wanted on locals without fear of punishment. But you're right, letting people in to work is much worse.
Because it is advertised as such, come to Britain, it is sch a nice and free and easy place to work and learn stuff. Only to be blueballed at the tax booth. But then how else will the corporations get access to cheap labour with little legal risks. Immigrants make for good labourers, corporations want more immigrants to keep quarterly margins fat. If your prosperity is built on parasitism on immigrants, they have the right to gain the fruits of their labour, as well as the advertised ease of business. If not, then close your country to multinational corporations and immigrants, then try turning a profit in your isolated island.
Thank you so much for making this video. It resonated deeply with me as someone from a third-world country who had to deal with VFS.
A few years ago, I was accepted into a research internship, but after multiple attempts, spending hundreds of dollars (thousands in my local currency), and navigating the obtuse visa requirements-which are somehow both convoluted and generic-my visa request was rejected. The reason? "Lack of travel experience."
As if I was supposed to "grind" travel in lower-tier countries before being deemed worthy of visiting a first-world country.
You've basically discovered a really key problem with the UK privatisation of what ought to be public services. I guess it's partly natural monopoly but it's more than that too. Prisons, railways, immigration and literally more sectors and services than I could ever list (and looking up would just make me really, really sad) wherein you could never "vote with your wallet" because you have no choice but to use the service there. A prisoner can no more complain about how G4S handles their prison than a railway customer can insist that another rail company provide trains on a line which is contracted by another company. It's really fucked up but I think a large part of it really boils down to the old trope of "we learned it from watching you", with 'you' being the USA.
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It is the nature of capitalism. It cannot create on steal and destroy. With the rising difficulty of stealing from less developed nations, the only stuff for the rich to steal is the systems from the imperial core.
Oh god, you said Blackstone and I immediately cringed. Why are they involved in every dumb and/or evil piece of corporate bullshit?
I'm glad to hear someone knew them beforehand.
@@Rosencreutzzz Much to my regret, yes. They exist in a nebulous space of bureaucratic evil along with SoftBank and gulf state sovereign investment funds.
evil is a solid investment apparently
Because they're one of the biggest alternative investment companies of the world and alternative in the context kinda means shenanigans
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That was fascinating and horrifying and really important. You are one smart Twitter mutual.
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The concept of the Walled World is really interesting to me, especially the way I personally fit into it. It ties into the segment about international travel becoming a sort of a blood privilege.
I'm a non-White Brazilian (I've seen people over here call my position in the racial hierarchy "Schrodinger's Brown" which I just think is an amusing name). Going through my mother's family there's quite a bit of Italian ancestry. My family had the right to request Italian citizenship and I got it and I have the passport.
It's just interesting to me that despite being a POC from the Walled-Off World, it's bureaucratically much easier for me to enter Europe than many White Americans.
I've been meaning to grab that italian citizenship from my great great grandparents, but don't want to deal with the absolute bureaucratic nightmare lol
I know that Brazil had a few different immigration waves from Italy. It's funny to me that about half the Brazilians I've met in real life have Italian grandparents. It might have something to do with relative wealth of white immigrant families or something, but I genuinely don't know enough about it to say anything definitive. Just curious is all.
@@Rosencreutzzz I can't claim to know a lot about the history, I'm basically basing it on my understanding from school
In the late 19th century, as the Monarchy lost power and was eventually replaced by the First Republic, the big political group that emerged and dominated the country until the 1930s were the wealthy landowners from the State of São Paulo. They made a lot of (and I mean a lot of money) exporting coffee and they basically kick-started the country's industrialization with that money. But they were really racist and they didn't want to pay salaries to their former slaves and there were too many of them anyway, the country needed fresh White blood to become successful. So they started a massive immigration campaign. There were many foci throughout the country but São Paulo and the Southernmost states were the biggest draw.
The state, and the City of São Paulo in particular, came to dominate the Brazilian economy and eventually (late 1990s and early 2000s) a white middle class appeared that actually had expectations of traveling abroad (mostly Florida, for Disney World and other parks and shopping in Miami) and sought English language education. Those white people were in large part the descendants of those old immigrant workers. So that's why I think they're the most likely group for English speakers to meet, they're the ones who travel abroad the most and access the Anglocentric Internet the most.
I don't know why Italians were the largest number but we also got a bunch of Germans, Spaniards, Slavs from all over, a lot of ethnicities from the Ottoman Empire (Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Syrian and Lebanese Arabs) and a **shitton** of Japanese people.
That's the general (probably outdated) idea
I was sort of in a similar situation, being born practically just meters away from the Schengen borders in Ukraine, yet still having to constantly worry about visas and passports, for most of my life if I ever wanted to live somewhere that's more economically stable, a place where "I could have a future".
First I wanted to at least get into the EU, so I applied for uni in Hungary, being a native speaker the process was still not easy, but I managed. Soon I was already applying for citizenship because of programs designed to help (the traditionally conservative voting) Hungarian minorities outside the borders vote in elections, a law passed by the ruling party a few weeks into their rule so they can stay in power for longer and get more votes, so even while giving new opportunities to people they're still just using our kind as tools to keep them in power.
But I also have German ancestry going back 3-4 generations, and while our first application for German citizenship failed when I was still little, we tried again a decade later and me and my family succeeded, so I'm actually a German citizen now too. Meanwhile if you happen to be born in Germany to Turkish parents, you can live all your life in Germany without being a citizen, without being able to vote, if you don't have the money to go through the paperwork and fees for "citizenship via naturalization" when living there all their life, which is also just insane to me.
What will happen when we'll be facing millions of climate refugees in the coming decades? Sadly I'm rather pessimistic that there will be any sort of systemic allowance for empathy with people who are just trying to make this continent their new home.
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Its so frustrating to see how little traction this video is getting! Its so good and such an important topic!
It might be because it's out of whatever youtube considers my typical genre, or also cause I use bad words and *algorithmically* bad words, but who knows. I rely on the kindness of others (read: pls random big leftist youtuber share me) to spread things where I can.
I mean traction is reserved for quality. Like those cat videos with the 10 mil views. I can say they are more of quality than this.
I'm going to try to change that by sharing. It is dense in the sense of the amount of information that it contains and can be overwhelming so I understand if it would be intimidating to some
Please make video on Blackstone. I want to go into any rabbit hole that explore such arcane and malicious eldricth horror that summoned by esoteric ritual that we currently call 2008 market crash.
6:28 I would like to respond to this sentence in particular. The US takes security so seriously that the Postal Service has THEIR OWN LAW ENFORCEMENT
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This is a great video. I like that you're switching between "multiple lanes" with your channel, as I think it suits you well. (The "wisdom" that one should pigeonhole oneself as a creator to appease the algorithm also kinda pisses me off.)
Also: with regard to the "Walled World" (this was my first time hearing the term, kudos for bringing it up) how do you feel about the "imperial core/periphery" terminology? I kinda like "Walled World" as it conveys the hostility of the Anglosphere and Europe to outsiders, and also is kinda like a "Walled Garden" as you mention. But "imperial core" makes it clear that imperialism is ongoing to this day.
Oh I tend to use the core/periphery thing but sometimes that gets really blurry because it kind of conflates empires. Like, China and Russia absolutely do imperialism but they’re not as “neocolonial” and that complicates things- they’re not the West Empire that is neoliberalism. We then have to understand there are many polities, so to speak, many cores. And that could work, but for the sake of understanding migration the walled world is what I chose.
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@@Rosencreutzzz have you done a video on this chinese imperialism?
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Only confusing part of this video is that you’re apparently trying to move *to* the UK
I'll swap passports with him if he wants.
@@Henners1991 hi, im down :)
I love the way you put that as "pay a lot more for the privilege of doing paperwork"; reminds me of Graeber's Utopia of Rules
I wonder if the problem the USA is facing, with immigration can be explained with the lack of people crossing the border down south, by people being immigrated underneath our noses and blamed on the southern border! I mean it makes sense and if you was trying to import a bunch of people a scapegoat would be a necessary thing.
lack of people at the southern border??? What world do you live in, there are endless caravans of thousands upon thousands crossing that border and the number is increasing
Excellent work here, really laid out these complex ideas in a way that was easy to digest. Your voiceover is so smooth, too. I also appreciate that you don't claim to know how exactly this problem should be resolved. It seems head-crushingly complicated to get out of this hole we've dug. It just is not going to be simple
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I have gotten both French and British visas and the process was so different. The French process was slower in many ways, and less "updated" (their websites quite useless and such, not much digital integration), but cheaper, and in many ways "democratic" in that sense. The British one felt fancier and more organised, but it was so ridiculously expensive, and it felt dystopian to have to pay for things in what should be a public service.
Thank you for introducing me to the concept of the walled world. I am from outside of it and currently my main goal in life has been leaving my country and moving to Europe. While researching how, I discovered how hard the process actually is and how the system is stacked against me. It really does feel like a wall and I realize that some of my peers, though equally deserving, would not be able to plan a move like this by things outside of their control.
Try Canada I've been looking into how to do it and it's much easier
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Of course the system is stacked against you, it's meant to be. What makes you think Europe should want to make it easier for foreigners to move in.
@@bisque6448because we generate wealth as well as your natinal brethren. Even better in some cases.
What makes you think that you deserve your nation, just because you are born in it? Why not better men and women replace you?
@ashutoshsethi6150 because I've been raised in the culture that made mu country the way it is. You have no such familiarity, so it's up to people like me to decide whether or not you can be valuable addition to that culture.
I like that summary towards the end, that borders prevent laborers from seeking better conditions, even from US citizens, seeking better conditions in the Nordic countries, where working at a McDonalds still means you get healthcare, so that the owners of the means of production have this additional leverage to keep wages and labor standards down. Countries within the walled world accept goods produced by sweatshop labor but not people fleeing the conditions that created sweatshop labor.
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The West is dominated by liberal immigration systems, immigration to the west results in wage stagnation or wage depression, worsening working conditions and worsening training for the average worker in a Western country.
You claim that Western countries do not accept people who flee poor labour conditions, this is false. western countries accept many of these people, however the driving for is for the benefit of elite not ordinary people.
It is true that the West consumes much in the way of good produced by those working for little compensation and poor conditions. I would however add to this that this has come about through almost a slight of hand, that has sought to deprive the western working class of work and displace their labour with that of more easily exploitable workers. This has been a confusing change for ordinary westerners who now find themselves trying to purchase items that were once produced by uni ones workers sometimes even a stones throw from their home, and instead find they pay marginally less to buy something made in a pet of the world their know little about. It remains that the benefit of this is not for the common people of the West.
The Walled World metaphor invokes something of fortress, which is a confusing a unnecessary metaphor for explaining straightforward class interests. The metaphor seems to be used to try and suggest that, on the one hand the walled world is not about territorial distinct nations because this is neoliberal after all, and on the other hand concerns of damaged national identity are used to uphold the walled world system. There is truth in this, however the common people of Western nations are reimagined as not having legitimate concerns, somewhat benefiting from Thai system and as continually supporting the very elites who benefit from this system the most. Rather than acknowledging wage stagnation, worsening job security, the irony of increased labour shortages that often result from liberal immigration systems and of course the cultural and political stresses.
@@suburbanyobbo9412 The west is scum, and continue to use their colonial tactics.
Can we get a Blackstone video? There's a whole lot to unpack there!
...Someday. I might have to just leave it to one of my betters, tbh.
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One might argue that "walls" like this are a necessary coping mechanism for how easy movement is now that global travel is a so fast and cheap, instead of taking months of travel time.
But I'm pretty sure most empires could care less who was on their land as long as they were working it or paying taxes. They'd be more worried about all their peasants abandoning them.
The "funny" thing is that unless it was like a city wall or such, walls never were really effective to keep people out, even back in ancient times. A wall is only a temporary hindrance and if it's not full of defenders it's overcome eventually
We should also keep in mind the number of times when invasive species came to a new area and had massive ecological impacts. Like, I can’t exactly blame Hawaii or Australia for having some pretty serious border controls because of all the times people brought new stuff to them and had it destroy native crops and fauna.
@tomlxyz kinda, not really. Walls are huge advantages for defenders, you can win a battle with 1/10th the men if your defending from a wall.
Damn, really happy the algorithm gave me this channel lol. Great video!
My partner and I have been dealing with a Belgian visum application and this explains so much about why the whole process is so unnecessarily complicated, wasteful, expensive and obtuse.
Babe wake up! Rosencreutz made another non-map game political video!
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Having been through UK immigration process with my Australian wife, its a nightmare - we ended up taking the British government to court over a rejected visa renewal. The incompetence and ignorance is staggering.
I had never heard of VFS before, probably because I live in the UK and haven't moved. Really interesting video on something I've not been exposed to much!
This came out as I've been thinking about borders and their use as of late. Anyways, it's always nice to see you upload, have some algorithm interaction.
it is a load of mess
Living in the Balkans just outside of the "walled world" can be a real pain in the ass. You are educated, but not enough, you are white, but not enough, you are cultured, but not enough, you are civilized, but not enough. And I have studied in three EU countries, two of them even coming from the same f-ing communist background, we are treated not like immigrants from Africa, but like idiots who were always there just being used as economical canon fodder, not to mention when you go to Germany or Switzerland. The best case scenario is that you will have enough money to come back to see your family every month. These are systems that are well indoctrinated into the way the governments work, but they are playing "nice", so they outsource the "evil" side job so they can still look like nice guys. "Look, UK haven't rejected your visa, it's the evil private business we outsource to". It is all well thought out by the government. And it's not just the UK, it's all other countries. Sure, maybe it is a little bit easier to move abroad now than in past 20 years, but even if you move, the immigration policy is forcing you to do some shady things in order to survive, and that is why immigrants are shown in a bad light.
I had to use VFS to get my student visa to France. What a nightmare!!!
I'm afraid to say that this gave me some interestingly evil ideas... to be applied to a fictional world
Free movement was less problematic in states without social welfare and health provision. Once there are such services and a perceived obligation to preclude destitution and provide medical care, some sort of exclusion is inevitable.
“People don’t go to countries that are bad for people.”
thats why it only works between developed nations
We can teach immigrants to take care of themselves and provide services to themshelves, and even buy up land using their labour. Maybe even loan them, and use them for indentured servitude if the fail to repay the principal adjusted to inflation.
I agree with slowing down immigration till welfare state catches up and they generate enough wealth to sustain themshelves. I don't agree with profiting off of it to an extent that the people most poor and vulnerable and therefore most ready for exploitation get shuttled to some other country, to the detriment of the neoliberal dream of prosperity.
Typing this from Wilmington and we are a rust belt town stapled on to a central business district
Yeah that really is the vibe isn't it?
It shure is
As soon as you asked where Disney's headquarters was I knew the answer would be Delaware, I just felt it in my bones.
I love this gaming history channel thing you make. Keep up the amazing work!
For some reason youtube thinks im interested in what you have to say, and its right. Ive spent the past 4 days binging every video on your channel, but this one earned the sub (god thats awful to say im performatively sorry). Your interests are my interests amigo. This shit hurts my soul but im glad that your rage at vhs was so white hot that this was a calm, rational dissection of neoliberal evil rather than inarticulate screaming into the void. Maybe its both. Anyway thanks.
Guess the real problem is that neither private corporations nor the government answer to us.
One lies, other need not talk.
A place I used to work (a Fortune 500 company) was based out of New York City not because of some particular benefit to the company, but because the former CEO didn’t want to leave New York when he took the job, and I think they had a small office there at the time so they just put his office there and made it the headquarters even though it’s maybe the 5th largest office owned by the company.
Or at least that’s what I was told.
My boy Eliwood would never do that Lilina like that, however Hector would do Roy like that.
I really really struggled with what direction to go with that exchange.
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No wonder our immigration never went down.
Im an immigrant and I was kinda shocked to see how privatised UK immigration is.
I thank you for giving me hope in the horrific immigration process, empathetic old soul as you are is all the world needs much more of...
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I had to rewatch that clip 13:49 three times to absorbe what he said because of the giant duck in the background
I agree with the majority of your talking points, but feel like some things weren't fleshed out. Like how a captive labour force within a border leads to lower wages, as well as how pre ww1 travel was less restrictive, but this also had a far lower social impact due to the lack of public services like universal health care, public housing, even sewerage etc. Thus putting the economic burden of migration solely on the migrant. Also how these lax border policies to say the US were used to fuel bodies colonisation and manifest destiny
The passport spiel is misleading at best, you needed signed documents by the king and common use of wax seals for authentication so no, visas aren't remotely new. That section of history you reference was an anomaly historically and only really existed within Europe for those that could actually afford it (very few). The fallout of WW1 cause huge numbers of migrants throughout Europe ad was an attempt to monitor an control it. Again see my first point about walled cities etc, they didn't just let anyone in and had vetting systems and in the case of wars that cause displacements people were often just cast out into the wilderness. Trust was built up within Europe that allowed for the free movement you reference which was broken by the failure of civil communications and outright government sanctioned assassinations causing WW1.
TL;DR forms of travel documents / proof of citizenship etc have existed since at least the middle ages in Europe and existed in the roman empire but sure go on and say how they are a modern creation. Travel was rare too and expensive so few could do it without dieing to bandits
Visas as we know them are an entirely new invention. Travel documents existed in the past, that isn't denied, but borders were nowhere near as secure and 'citizenship' was more of a social privelege than a civic norm.
Is that it? The video retains its integrity.
Visas and hard borders are a modern invention. Stop being disingenuous and engage with the argument or you’re just a coward.
As an American the strictness at which Visa's are enforced has always felt "wrong," or prehaps contrary my common sense understanding of the world. I'm not talkng about needing approval to enter a country (even if I think it should be less strict), because it make sense for countries to want to screne for dangerous or hostile actors trying to enter their territory. I'm talkng only being allowed to stay in country you've been approved to enter for a limited amount of time unless you can find a justification for why you should be allowed to stay longer.
I am a resident of the state of New Hampshire (NH), I pay taxes to the NH state and vote in NH elections, but I can at anytime travel to a different state (say Oklahoma) and spend however long I want there. As long as I am abiding by state and federal law and not inconviencing state residents, the state of Oklamona won't care that their is an NH resident effectively crashing in their boarders. I can even acess state owned locations like public parks without any red tape, even though none of my taxes went towards developing or maintaning it.
So the idea that I can't just travel to another country that is not hostile to towards my own and stay there moving from hotel to hotel untill I personally choose to go home, that my access to a country has has a countdown like its a subscription free trial, feels counterintuitive to my prior experience of how traveling works. This feels closer to enttering a privately owned property in America than it does going to djfferent state, and that feels really grows in a way that's difficult to articulate.
Like a travel visa is less a stamp of approval that says "this person unlikely to inventionally break our laws" and more like a admission ticket to the *government's* land in away that, I feel, undermines the idea that a goverment is extention of people and not the owner of people.
The biggest problem is, as always, that free movement from abroad would cripple any nation that tries it. It's already become relatively common for rich people in countries like China to move to Australia or New Zealand to buy houses and inflate the cost of living.
As another example, I live in a third world country and if we allowed free immigration the same thing will happen. There's already been an increase in people coming from China, Korea or Japan and even from the West in recent years. These people are not really a problem as they work productive jobs but if free access was allowed the rich, as mentioned, would migrate here. This would turn our country into nothing more than a retirement home for rich people from other countries while everything becomes increasingly unaffordable for locals.
This was something I always knew but never knew what the root of the problem was and now I know. Great video!
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There’s no such word as ‘privatization’. The word is spelt with a ‘s’.
Some ad I've been getting recently; "Queensland is loosing investors" "Keep Queensland competitive"... god I hate region specified ads, but this one, just feels targeted, like I gotta do my part... hAh, I wasn't even born here! What does keeping this place competitive matter to me? Well, I should probably keep my mouth shut actually... they might come after me for saying this... who knows though, probably won't, but to be safe... I'll state now that I don't really know the situation, which is true, the situation that would lead to someone making an ad about Queensland allegedly struggling to remain competitive, meanwhile, they've got, well... wealth... of course, competition isn't just about maintaining the status quo, it's about continued expansion... never ending expansion...
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The music is bloody amazing!
Do you link it somewhare?
I couldnt find it
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Pleaseee doo
Id love to hear thease on their own and support the musicians that made them
It was a great video
Have a good day
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This video is awesome in a way that some left-tube videos are not, in that I feel like I could show it to my Fox News addled father and his disdain for bureaucracy and [definitely atrophied] sense of justice would have him agreeing with the points in it more than his programming would normally allow.
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This is my favorite part of the video "Don’t borders make less and less sense with a globally integrated world and an allegedly global economy? Why keep up the borders, these massive institutional barriers to self-made men, these things that indirectly create privilege by blood, in a world that supposedly promotes equal opportunities? Why is it that being born to EU parents, of blood descent from a place you’ve never been somehow makes it far easier to access most of an entire continent? What is that if not privilege by blood, a supposedly eradicated"
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See, here in Europe, that privilege involves millennia of my ancestors' blood that stained the soil beneath me. We've never said we want to eradicate it. It wasn't earned by me but it was for my benefit. Strange and alien concept - that you can (and would want to) better the world of your offspring. We used to call that "progress" before the word was miss used to mean a new generation of iphone.
"Two societies with the same name" ah, yes, the famous dutch-irish double decker sandwich.
I joke, this is eye-opening
Have you seen the rest? look at @carlos maza
The video reminded me somewhat of a video by the TH-camr eliquorice going in depth on the movie Coco, which talked more in depth about the social implications of our current border situations (both the implications faced by those outside the Walled World but also how our media tends to portray our current global systems.) It’s only slightly related but does feel like a good side tangent to the topics discussed in this video.
Woah loved this. Thought u had 10x as many followers as u do! 💖
They copyright and make the document inaccessible because there is a remedy in there, as no government or person can lawfully control another individual without their being a remedy for the individual if it infringes upon their natural rights.
I know this video is a year old but im not a gamer and because of my TH-cam tendencies the algorithm gods have granted you unto me. Great video thank you 😊
I cackled bleakly at the fact I didn't have to guess about the Disney question (I live in Newark, DE, so it's kiiiiind of a meme around here at this point). While I know it's improbable (for now), I always worry what might happen if US State governments were given the power to deny entry/exit from and to other states. Right now there are no border patrols (not counting Alaska and Hawaii for obvious geographical location reasons), you can hopscotch back and forth across any state border you please so long as you're a legal US resident. But it's sadly not difficult to imagine the "illegal alien" and "drug trade" and "human trafficking" paranoia reaching a point where states started campaigning for their own closed borders, their own walls. Imagine Ohio checking the ID of everyone coming in from their more westerly state lines, or requiring additional background checks of anyone looking to buy a house who happened to be moving from a poorer state with supposedly higher crime rates. Right now that would be very legally difficult to accomplish, but I can't imagine there aren't politicians who want that and companies like Blackstone who would jump on the opportunity to monetize such a thing. When I first became old enough to vote, it would have been unthinkable to require two forms of state-issued ID and a facecheck to do so. Now that's the reality in more than a few states. All it takes is enough moneyed interests manipulating enough people to make it happen.
I don't really have a point here other than this video stirred up one of my more persistent and uncomfortable brainbugs. It's a good thing to be aware of, but I don't have a solution for it, either.
Great video as always
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Maybe one day the un or it's decadent can actually enact laws that doesn't discriminate against the poor nations
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A really interesting video, and excelent work my friend.
If you wish to do more videos on borders, may I suggest looking into the companies that proffit from getting cheap labour to western markets?
Like, I am not sure if you know, but there are companies who facilitate getting a 3-6 month work visa, in places like the UK, in order to get cheap labour in their markets, usually in exchange for a portion of the labourers salary.
I would be extreamly interested to see hiw these work.
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3:39 Opening up tendering to private firms to run services isn’t a transition into privatisation that seconds earlier you alluded to, since the state (or whichever authority holds ownership of the services) calls the shots, often with expectations to meet. The transition only occurs when the authority wishes to pursue expansion of private involvement within the sector of that service.
For my easy way to explain, I’ll use railways as an example: Transport for London (run by the Greater London Authority) owns the London Overground and Crossrail brands, which are suburban railway networks serving the passengers of London. Private firms get contracted to run the service on their behalf, but branding, timetables and ticketing are dealt by TFL. This leaves the firms with the responsibility to recruit staff and run an efficient service meeting performance targets. Failure to do so results in contract termination and it goes to tender again. A similar system exists for London’s buses too.
3:52 Come on, “lets a function fail”? I find a hard time understanding how wishing for the private firms to compete against state owned utilities is a sign that said state companies are failing. Railway networks in Central and Western Europe, which are mostly state owned by their respected countries, allow “open access operators” (ie. completely private operators) to run on their tracks for a fee, of which this is mandated by the European Union’s Second Railway Package, layering several directives on how European rail should be shaped. Those state rail companies have hardly fallen to hard times. Even if one takes into account the facing challenges of rail companies in the current state of affairs, the state owned companies are doing much better than some of their counterparts in Northern America and Britain.
4:05 (First paragraph) No it isn’t, for reason I have explained above. Otherwise many European countries would be seen as totally inept for letting private firms run trains alongside state owned trains.
4:34 Businesses offer products or services, and putting it the other way round, products or services are offered by businesses, therefore services ARE a business. Whether they’re privatised or not and whether they’re profitable or not is irrelevant to this statement. Even then, why would it be a concern to you that a service finds itself profitable? That means it can cross-subsidise loss-making in a sector (for my example, the profits of intercity mainline routes cross-subside the costs of rural branch lines).
The more I went on watching the video, the more insane you become. Your explanation of privatisation is one-sided with a very negative view upon it. And considering it’s the introduction, it should put off a lot of people.
Pedantic fluff. There's no substance to your argument and it's telling that you go after small details because you can't argue against the core idea of the video.
Why should an explanation not be one sided? Bias is not a bad thing, you are conceited for implying that you aren't biased. Privatisation almost always is a bad thing for almost everyone except the small minority who own the benefitting company. It's a form of corruption by another name.
The difference between railways and immigration is that the customer in the former is a citizen which the state has a duty to serve or get outvoted, so his opinions matter to the private corporation that agreed to the tender requirements presented by the government.
The 'customer' in immigration control sector has no rights and place to demand a fair trial, he has no legal rights that are restricting the corporation from screwing him over for profits or vindictive fun or plain old incompetence. The lever necessary to keep a private corporation robust is accountability, which is lacking if a corporation serves cattle, in the same way cattle cannot protest against being killed and stripped for meat.
The crux of neoliberalism here, rent seeking and deniability. I saw another example of the plausible deniability that privatisation offers this winter in the UK. 'British' Gas is a privatised energy supplier who has been subcontracting out the forced installation of prepayment meters in the homes of people who fall behind on their extortionate bills. When it came to light that these subcontractors were brazenly flouting regulations on exactly who and who cannot have one of these meters installed (and behaving appallingly towards said people), the multimillionaire CEO of BG could go on TV and waffle nonsense about how this 'isn't who we (BG) are' and how he was 'shocked and angry' to learn of the methods by which his own company makes money. You employed them! Why doesn't the buck stop with you?
Basically, I fucking hate this island. Great video and channel tho, was very interesting to go from watching your recent Bannerlord video to this.
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Anti free movement of human/labour is simply NIMBY but on a greater scale.
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Yet another amazing video. Given the views of the Home secretary, I only see the immigration process becoming more difficult over the next few years. I wish someone would question Braverman when she talks about her own parents immigration to Britain as to how the process has changed since that happened. When you take away all the legal routes, desperate people will use illegal ones. The only way to stop people dying in small boats crossing the channel is to let them on the large ones.
Or stop the flow entirely, considering over a million foreigners entered our country jusy last year. It's too much. Its always been too much. And we're suffering their presence.
@@T_Dun source on that? Thats more people than most British cities swarming so big you could see them on satellites in space, aka sounds ridiculous and made up.
You realise the vast majority, almost near entirety of both the population and population increases ate native British?
If theres too many people we need to look at our sex education and emigration support, not scream vaguely across the Channel
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1. It's a privilege, not a right to go to someone elses country. It is their right to deny you for any or no reason.
2. If you can't game a byzantine bureaucratic public-private partnership system, you might just not be able to properly integrate in Britain.
Who is they in your first point? The people?
@@matthewmannion4227 Supposedly yes. But in reality is the byzantine public-private (most likely overpaid) employees. Great Britain makes me sad and very happy at the same time...
We can create a world without borders. That's what V2 is for!
How come you don’t post the name of the pieces you used in this video?
I had to use VFS Visas when applying for a Russia visa.
All I can really say is that the staff were rude and unpleasant.
0:29 That is NOT a spelling error, that's how it is spelt in real English.
I’m commenting this before watching the “Why are Borders?” segment so that I don’t forget it; sorry if you ended up addressing this.
Although most often used especially in current times to maintain the global-capitalist power structures, I think there is ironically a bit of an anti-imperialist justification for borders as well. If Cuba, for example, had open borders this whole time, I imagine that would have spelled disaster, as US entities could have snuck in and undermined what was going on there to instead favor US interests (slowly rebuilding a de facto slavery-based sugar economy for American consumption and American corporate profit, and the like).
Similarly, I think borders serve _some_ purpose as a containment strategy. It feels yucky to say this as it’s often a fascist talking point, but as an actual example: if the borders Turkey had with Iraq and Syria weren’t militarized, ISIS might have claimed significantly more lives. This does still operate with some degree of nation-centrism, as it allows those “safe” adjacent countries to more easily ignore the problem, which would not be the case if problems threatened to spread fully everywhere, but I do think it _might_ have justification if it saves more lives.
Sadly, neither of these are often what borders are used for nowadays, so both points are somewhat moot. Borders obviously aren’t full proof, and as I’m sure you know there’s innumerable cases of imperialist powers being able to project authority and influence across them anyways, while at the same time using strong borders’ innately protective potential to give those imperialist aims license to cause _more_ problems because it’s less likely to spread to home territory…
I guess my two arguments in favor of borders are mainly theoretical, with reality being much more upsetting. Still, I think there’s a bit of merit to both as there have been at least a handful of times where these properties saved lives. At the same time, maybe vaporizing all borders and forcing humanity to share one lifeboat would save even more…
(None of this is to dispute what you’re going to talk about regarding the origin of borders and their intended/primary functions, by the way. I am *not* arguing modern border systems were invented to curtail imperialism lmao. Just wanted to point out their very niche benevolent potentials.)
Would you consider Poland to be part of the walled world, part of those walled out, or something else? (in between? both? neither? etc.)
I admittedly don’t know much about Poland but I know it’s a significant source of immigrants to other European countries while at the same time being obtuse to immigration from countries furthest east and south.
(I think a similar question could be posed for Mexico- walled by the US while itself walling the countries of Central America-, but its economic relationship with the US and the influence of US pressure on Mexico’s border decisions makes me think it sits squarely in the walled out section.)
(Also of course feel free to correct me and/or argue back. I’m honestly not very versed in this topic; I’ve just read a bit on US interventionism and took the first week of a class on neo-imperialism, so I don’t think I have a strong foundation to stand on with my claims here)
Poland and Mexico are both examples of where it's tricky, for differing reasons. In the case of Mexico, the issue is that Mexico is actually in the top twenty world economies rather consistently, as is Brazil and Indonesia, partially because they're populous and larger countries for their respective regions. But they still don't make migration easy because of that. Again, Mexico has that economic relationship, but the US Mexico border is tangibly walled at some points in ways Canada simply isn't.
Poland, on the other hand is part of the EU, a part that has been included in free migration, no less. That was actually an implicit issue in Brexit-- the face the supposed "migrant invasion" was usually depicted as brown "third worlders" when in reality Polish migrants from within the EU were a concern UKIPpers did their best to speak around-- because it wasn't as "scary". In the video you can actually see a chart where it shows that Polish nationals still make up a sizable chunk of UK migrant populations.
So I'd say they're in it. The wall is expanding as time and, likely, neoliberal guarantees are extended. That said, race, or at least, "whiteness" will likely continue to be a factor, but that's a whole nother conversation.
To your other comment, I'd mostly just say that you're quite right that borders have to be deployed defensively at times. This is also why you sometimes see the smug contrarian argument of "oh yeah if borders are bad then why is [historically oppressed and isolated group OR literally "Wakanda"] allowed to have them without question?!"
I'd like to maybe find a space to talk about borders more holistically than this video, all said.
That is why i don't trust the birder is a fascist things, one of the most efficient way to not be bothered by external problem when trying to solve your internal problem is to be cut off from outside interference, cuba couldn't have survived as a state without this, does vietnam should have been invaded by the by china because it was a Bit more similar than with the US ? Should sri lanka give away its independence so that indian nationalist can finally be happy ? If you think removing border is removing allegiance or nationality or cultural disparity, well it won't because it was there in the first place and its for that that nation state existed and thrived
If you think removing border is gonna be make everyone more equal, not at all, its gonna make everyone be at the mercy of the most populous or powerfull ethnie, culture, group, community wich will dominate every other group
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7:05 remember when people paid the government for the right to give services like prisons
What does Death Before Davos mean?? Do you have something against the Onion Knight, or is the WEF associated with… just what does that mean?
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I am not satisfied with the economic aspect of the video. I believe that the biased nature of the writer for the subject (which was admitted within the video) led to this lack of substance which was what drew me to it. Mainly it failed to explain the reasons for the change of pricing and how were the old a new price tags created(based on what equelibriums and under what models were they created.). The creator should also take a look at the previous costs and current costs of the sector and of course, compare them before and after Brexit. To assess how effective it is one must get more data from within the company which would be easy to assume would be unreachable. There for to make any form of argument for or against its effectiveness would be as of now, just devaluing the work rather than adding to it. In terms of the last section based on borders that part was unneeded since it had little that can be contributed as of now to the subject. Since the fact of citizenship and borders are a given within modern communities to make a stance regarding it and to devote such a major part of the video to something that doesn't really amount to more than idealism and projecting one's opinion rather than covering the subject (assuming the subject and goal of the inquiry here was to cover the privatized sector of migration within England) is rather fruitless. I can say that the part devoted to this was wasted if not damaging to the whole work. Finally, I would like to ask the writer's thoughts on free trade and what it entailed and also get his thoughts on the subject of economic history and finally his qualifications on the subject of economics.
One World. One Humanity. ONE FAMILY.
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All the "shouldn't government be more than *and then lists horrible things* you're just describing the Canadian government "
2:33 so that is the context of that clip
how so?
Empireal countries usuallt told colonies who could come into the colonized country. The private company is just another form of empire. The east India company was a private-for-profit company. For the goose, then, for the gander.
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THEY PROFIT FROM JUST APPLYING TO ENTER THE COUNTRY? THEY FOUND A WAY TO PROFIT FROM THAT? HOLY SHIT WE LIVE IN HELL.
Maybe you want to wait to make sure there isn't WWIII before moving to the UK. And wait until after winter ends at least with gas and possible power cuts on account of the war in the East.
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I love how China is 3rd world...
A nations land, wealth and resources belong to it's people and they have a right to determine who does and doesn't get to live there, simple as that.
Right, okay, let's accept that premise. Do you think "the people" are determining anything here, or is a private multinational tax haven for-profit corporation determining things?
@@Rosencreutzzz corporations are run by people. Being part of a corporation doesn't make someone separate from society. A corporations activities are underwritten by a government who itself draws it's legitimacy from the consent of the governed....... i.e "the people".
If the people don't like what a corporation is doing then the burden is on them to use their national self determination to elect a government that will rein in that corporations excesses.
@@Rosencreutzzzwhy not both they can be determined like do people actually want people from other countries to come to their countries
@@emperorclaudius5499and then the new government will eschew the profits that the old government made? How would changing the head reliably change the circulatory system that exploits to feed the head? The head will set a new normal that makes the circulatory system 'natural' over time, regardless of whether it is the head or the circulatory system in control.
You can't have unlimited migration and welfare state in the same country. You'll have to pick one.
Well looking from outside the UK, it is neither one anymore.
@@Ostvalt that’s always an option, too :D
We can have welfare state that is run my immigrants?
How tf do you not get more views smh
i love how shit my country is that i only found out about this shit bc of youtube. i truly thought he just fucked outselves over with privatization. i guess thats why i never get to see my intl. friends here.
22:47 Ranulf is Brazilian? Sick.
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Immigration might weaken the power of employees, and emigration might increase it. Oftentimes the lastest immigrants are the ones that are most against further immigration as they see it fit to protect their societal position. Professions often do the same thing by limiting the supply of authorized workers through arcane rules and denying foreign diplomas from counting.
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I have had the misfortune of having to use VFS 'services' in order to obtain a student visa to Finland as a UK Citizen. The excessive fees, poor organisation, and utterly shameful standard of service at their visa centre in London is nothing short of a complete scandal. I have seen some very desperate people stuck in endless lines and waiting rooms being badgered and treated very poorly by staff. I had to visit the centre 4 times over the course of 2 months, and every single visit took at least 3 hours in which I was effectively stuck in this bureaucratic nightmare trying to just... pick up my approved visa. Emails went completely ignored and trying to even schedule an appointment or contact them over the phone was a herculean task which I guarantee would be essentially impossible if English wasn't your first language. I never want to go through that crap again - and I really, really despise the way that other people, mainly people who aren't UK citizens, are being treated by this awful company.
It took direct intervention from the Finnish embassy to even be informed of the delivery of my visa. And when I picked it up, VFS had the audacity to charge me £65 for no apparent reason. Truly awful
The inclusion of the palestinian wall is kinds of intresting here. The government by far rather we go live in the west bank than in Europe, and in the same vein, Israelies like palestinians being available for manual labour, but because the whole intifada thing we started importing workers from the global south under exploititive terms to do that instead.
Yes but if immigration was efficient who would hire all the immigration officers and legal council. Inefficiency is a response to the creative destruction of capitalism. It’s the very same reason why fascism develops intense militarism. Because violence is inherently not only unproductive but counter productive to advancing productive forces.
Are The toll booth earnings worth the loss of productivity?
@@ashutoshsethi6150 the loss of productivity is the point.
I think that there is something to be said about how the walled-world shilds countries within from what is basicaly a consecuence of their actions. Given colnies and interventionism. In all the cases i can think of, migrants suffer because of reactionary movements created from the suffering of colonial rule of suffer from the disadvantage of bein born in a country who is economically cohiseve for a shorter period of time. (Sorry for any misspelled words not a native speaker). Hopefully i still made myself understood.
Besides labor, what do you think of criminals? Obviously not all are criminals, but a few bad eggs make bias and racism occur for the detriment of all.
Calma, o bk é nosso? Wtf
Obtaining a UK visa is not some essential need, which should be easilly accessable to every one
Why would it be?
The British empire unlawfully went where it pleased and allowed British people to commit whatever horrors and atrocities they wanted on locals without fear of punishment.
But you're right, letting people in to work is much worse.
Because it is advertised as such, come to Britain, it is sch a nice and free and easy place to work and learn stuff. Only to be blueballed at the tax booth.
But then how else will the corporations get access to cheap labour with little legal risks. Immigrants make for good labourers, corporations want more immigrants to keep quarterly margins fat.
If your prosperity is built on parasitism on immigrants, they have the right to gain the fruits of their labour, as well as the advertised ease of business. If not, then close your country to multinational corporations and immigrants, then try turning a profit in your isolated island.
Sorry breh, sovereign states and their peoples have no obligation to take migrants
Then why are their businesses and colleges open to migrants? Close off your economy and intellectual spheres, why do you keep baiting and switching.