Storebought
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« on: November 26, 2016, 04:42:37 PM » |
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« edited: November 26, 2016, 04:44:15 PM by Storebought »
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In that article, the majority of refugees are fleeing to Curacao, a tiny near-desert island surrounded by reefs and rough seas.
I can't begrudge anyone who runs away from a terrible living condition, from a failed state, but their near uniform choice of Curacao is telling. These people would rather pay pirates $1000 USD for a chance to be tossed overboard from a raft to swim to rich Curacao than to walk to poor Guyana for free*. In that sense, even desperate people exercise economic choice.
*The article does mention that Venezuelans were flooding the border to slightly-worse-off-on-paper Colombia before their Army closed it.
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