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andrewducker) wrote2017-09-08 12:00 pm
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- Zoë Quinn tells her story - and that of Gamergate
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- Judge won’t release man jailed 2 years for refusing to decrypt drives
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- Why the Equifax breach is very possibly the worst leak of personal info ever
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- What makes alcoholics drink? Research shows it's more complex than supposed
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- Discovery of genes linked to preterm birth in landmark study
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One is, what does happen to a country that is depopulating (relative to its neighbours). Particularly if that country is part of a free trade and free movement union like the EU.
Basic economics suggests that the price of land and property will fall quite a lot and the price of labour probably rise a little and that would encourage people to retire there.
The second thing I'm mulling over is that, if you are a poor Eastern European country and you join the EU and you don't want people to move to your country (and the criteria for Bulgarian citizenship include learning Bulgarian, so they seem serious about that) what were you hoping would happen? If there are good jobs with better pay in nice cities in other countries on offer to your young people and you are actively discouraging people moving in and you don't want your country to end up being a half-empty holiday rental retirement home why did you join the EU?
What ever the Bulgarian for puzzled is, I'm puzzled.
Why join the EU?
Imagine you have a country made up of 40% old people, who are very attached to their country, and also quite nationalist (but I repeat myself!) and also 60% younger people, who would quite like some options in life.
Well then, you vote to join the EU, and then some of your young people go elsewhere for jobs, and then some follow, and then about ten years after that 90% of your young people have moved elsewhere, and you're stuffed.
And the chances of you kickstarting your economy from absolutely nowhere is zero, and frankly in thirty years your country is going to be completely depopulated because the old people will either have moved to join their children (and be looked after them) or have simply died off.
Re: Why join the EU?
I wonder how hard Bulgarian is to learn? Fairly. Plus, no amount of cheapness makes a country with mostly old hardline nationalists all that appealing...
Re: Why join the EU?
EU nationals get to vote in local elections...
Re: Why join the EU?