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I’m a multi-disciplined technologist, systems engineer and analyst , and sometimes intellectual activist.😄 I’m under no illusions about political actors or human nature, most of it is signaling, extraction, and incentive gaming. Having said that, like every Miss Universe contestant, I’d still like to see world peace. The honest path runs through better maps of reality and clear-eyed first-principles analysis, not prettier lies.

@EricLDaugh Is it the weekend already? Will hear about the real deal come Monday.

🚨 BREAKING: PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS IRAN WAR IS SETTLED, signing may take place in EUROPE to make it official Pray for peace! 🙏🏻 "A big day. I know you'll never be satisfied, but that's okay. It doesn't bother me at all. We just made a great settlement of the war with Iran, and we're going to be subject to finalization of documents." "We should get done over the next few days. Probably have a signing maybe in Europe, and it's a great thing." "Stock market's up 1,000 points. That means they like the deal! Oil's dropped, it will start coming down EVEN LOWER than it was before!"

@trajektoriePL Don't know if a special ops team should deal with Peter or not, after all we know governments world wide will do whatever they want outside of public view, just like they have with UFO/UAP ETs.

Now we know why Peter Thiel packed his bags for Argentina. Milei just submitted his AI legislative framework to Congress, where he proposes: - zero regulation on AI development, - a brand-new "non-human corporation" category for AI/robot-operated entities with limited liability -a low-tax regime with flexible governance rules. The Dutch East India Company gave the world the limited liability company in 1602. Milei wants Argentina to do the same for autonomous AI agents in 2026.

@JamesHerder @jpz0883 @RockChartrand No gaslighting, my message is clear, do your homework, operative from your authentic belief and go build it. Hopefully you will have the outcome you want.

@jpz0883 @RJGOnTweeter @RockChartrand Lol trying to gaslight people is certainly a strategy. You're like chief Wiggum telling people there's nothing to see here if you think a large chunk of younger people can afford a house the same as they could 40-50 years ago.

Scarcity isn't created by capitalism. Scarcity is the starting condition of life. Food, housing, medicine, and energy don't exist automatically. They have to be produced. The real question is: who produces them, and by what right are they distributed? Capitalism says people earn access to goods by creating value for others. What's your alternative?

If you don't believe the FED research, or world bank charts I understand, as I said Denial isn't just a river in Egypt. Just because I live in the US Empire, does not mean I have lost objectivity and my critical thinking to diagnose the root causes. There is undeniable proof of how most of the gains have gone to the top knowledge, technology and STEM workers. In my experience, those that want to use a broader brush have an agenda and are not comfortable with other data that contradicts them. My encouragement is the same, fix the scale issues that occur in all isms and the extraction economy they setup up with the right structures for market entity level distribution vs tax and transfer where it gets bought and frequently lines the pockets of the political class.

Evidence below that most of the gains have gone to the few vs the many. Income & wealth disparity in the US has widened since 1980, as shown by rising Gini coefficients, while inflation-adjusted (real) wages and median household income have seen only modest gains overall, with most benefits going to higher earners. Technology, knowledge work and STEM jobs account for most of the gains in middle and upper middle class income. Gini Coefficient (Income Inequality): US household income Gini has trended upward from ~0.38-0.40 in the early 1980s to around 0.41-0.49 in recent years. (upward is not good). 👉 FRED Gini Chart: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SIPOVGI… 📷data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.P… Inequality: Much more pronounced. The top 50% (especially top 1% and 0.1%) have captured the vast majority of wealth gains since 1989. Bottom 50% share remains very low. 📷 Federal Reserve Distribution of Household Wealth (1989–2025): federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/da… Wages & Median Household Income: Real median weekly earnings have been relatively flat for decades with some recent improvement. Real median household income rose from the $55k–$60k range (early 1980s, in today's dollars) to around $80k–$84k recently — but gains have been uneven. 📷 Real Median Household Income (FRED): 📷 Real Weekly Earnings Trends: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252… line from the data: Productivity grew faster than typical wages, top-end compensation and asset appreciation drove most of the gains, and inequality metrics have increased. Taxes and transfers moderate the income picture somewhat, but wealth concentration is stark.

I am not an ISM defender on any side. However I have also learned the Denial isn't just a river in Egypt. I believe many who comment seem to be a bit blinded by narratives that are not connected to the human scale issues that plague many systems and turn them into wealth mining operations for extractors. Every ISM has its detractors and all have their moment when it appears to explain the world. But when scaled through human institutions, incentives, fear, ambition, and power, each begins generating the very conditions it was organized to overcome. Marxism is envy with a theory of history. Capitalism is appetite disciplined by competition, until competition is bought. Communism is equality achieved by lowering the ceiling and locking the doors. Socialism is compassion organized into coercion. Fascism is fear marching in uniform. Technocracy is priesthood without confession. Globalism is empire without a flag. Populism is democracy after trust has collapsed. Neoliberalism is feudalism with spreadsheets. Postmodernism is acid poured on meaning, then bottled as sophistication. Consumerism is the marketplace colonizing the soul. Scientism is the laboratory pretending to be a cathedral. Transhumanism is man trying to escape the consequences of being man.

Capitalism isn't class war. It's the end of class war. You don't rise by conquering a class. You rise by producing value and trading voluntarily. Communism creates the real ruling class: politicians, planners, and bureaucrats who control property, jobs, production, and distribution. Under capitalism, success comes from trading with others. Under communism, success comes from serving the political class. That's class warfare institutionalized.

This is why I went looking for a solution myself and found that the structure had to change, not through an ISM, but through Employee Ownership and Cooperatives. These can be implemented in capitalist and some socialist societies. In America, you can find approximately 6,400 employee-owned companies with ESOPs through the National Center for Employee Ownership. In the UK (since 2014) and Australia (since around 2015), governments have introduced Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) and Employee Share Schemes (ESS) with strong incentives to adopt them. One of the largest cooperatives in the world, Mondragon Corporation, has around 70,000 employees worldwide across 150 countries and has been operating for many decades. The reality in power dynamics is that the market rewards producers, profits, and ownership. Employee- and cooperative-owned structures solve all three.Many companies start out small in entrepreneurship mode, with founders and small teams who are the owners, along with a few investors. Generally, the founder and team are still employee-owners. This changes when they start using private equity firms for growth or mezzanine capital. Investors typically come in with a standard buy-and-hold period of about 5–7 years (sometimes shorter) and recover their profits by selling to the next set of investors, another private equity firm, or through an IPO. Beyond power dynamics, the problem is also about distance and disconnection, which leads to dysfunction due to a lack of shared fate — see my earlier post. x.com/RJGOnTweeter/s… Wishing you the best in your journey deciding what to join or build to make the difference.

@RJGOnTweeter @RockChartrand Oh I get that but in his fantasy world the more value you create the more you make. In that scenario a more productive worker should make more but they do not. Capitalism at its core creates this as the incentive is only for more/endless profit so its working as designed

The “my ism is better than your ism” framing seems short-sighted. History shows terrible costs to humanity during heinous periods and poor outcomes under all of them. Short posts can't replace education that comes from your own deep investigation. What follows is a short version of my own conclusion as a self-directed learner. Systems of collaborative production that scale up regularly generate problems due to inherent human-system limitations. (See attached ism-agnostic diagram I made years ago.) Many systems, especially large scale “isms”, eventually become pathological when the distance between rulers and the governed severs any shared fate. That disconnection turns every government, regardless of ism, into a system of well-organized greed that serves extractors rather than the governed. Whether the path to privilege is market success (capitalism) or political power (socialism/communism), the result is identical: Dysfunction and wealth mining for the connected few, delivering society a shared pathology instead of justly shared progress. Wishing everyone clarity so we can actually troubleshoot the human-systems-at-scale issues common to all isms.

Capitalism protects you from oligarchy by protecting property rights and limiting the government's ability to take what you've earned and hand it to politically connected interests. Socialism doesn't eliminate oligarchs. It just replaces market success with political power as the path to privilege. The result isn't the absence of oligarchs. It's socialist oligarchs. And when people point to the oligarchs that exist in mixed economies, they're often pointing to the very government power socialists want more of.

@JamesHerder @RockChartrand GDP went up as technology impacted in the 80s but increases in returns went to shareholders, not job holders.

@RockChartrand That notion went out the window decades ago. Your "production" has little if any say in what you earn.

This was already understood in 2013 at globalactionplatform.org - I raised the issue of the impact. Peter Thiel said no problem, automation saves everyone because of the abundance it creates. I raised the same issue of impacts of displacement and commodification and the downward spiral it creates, making tax and transfer UBI that relies on profit production a fantasy. They would not address it, after all who am I compared to Peter. Parted company with them as a result, because that leaves only one outcome and solution.....

REPORT: Two economists from Wharton and Boston University published a peer-reviewed paper arguing that AI will destroy not just jobs but the economy itself. They detailed a vicious cycle that feeds itself with no stopping point until everything breaks. Here’s the brief rundown: First, one company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor cuts 700 jobs to stay competitive. And another eliminates 1,000 more. Every company is following its incentives: to cut spending while retaining and/or improving efficiency. But where things break is that the workers who lose their jobs were also customers. When people lose income faster than the economy can create new opportunities, they spend less. Consumer demand falls. Then, companies respond by cutting costs even further. That creates even less spending, weaker demand, and another round of automation. Eventually, they argue, the economy simply stops working. The researchers tested nearly every major solution being discussed today, including universal basic income, capital income taxes, worker retraining programs, and corporate coordination agreements. In their model, none of them solved the problem. The only intervention that consistently worked was a Pigouvian automation tax, a per-task levy designed to force companies to account for the demand they’re destroying when they replace workers with AI. No major economy has implemented such a policy, and few are seriously debating it. The most unsettling part of the paper is that nobody has to be acting maliciously for the outcome to occur. Companies are simply following their incentives. And according to these economists, that’s exactly what creates the trap. Watch @zeeemedia’s full report and see why this paper is generating so much concern.

@EricLDaugh So come this Friday peace will just be a weekend away until Monday. 🙂

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump has just REVERSED a planned Israeli invasion of troops into Lebanon after a call with PM Netanyahu Trump CALLED HEZBOLLAH and got them to stop! 🔥🔥 This comes as Iran kept blocking negotiations due to Israeli strikes in Lebanon "There will be no Troops going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back. Likewise, through highly placed Representatives, I had a very good call with Hezbollah, and they agreed that all shooting will stop — That Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel." Master Dealmaker.

My mindset, just like every other human, has characteristics formed through residency in culture and logic that abstracts understanding into what is called a worldview (see chart). The human mindset (Monad) is formed in part from natural factors of geo-spatial locus, cultural, and temporal influences, shaped by my experiential field. These define and shape signals, plus individual foraging for understanding and truth. (Affective neuroscience helped me see this clearly.) Different roles within societal structure reward different behaviors. My rewards, as an analyst and engineer, came from finding "truth", because to make parts work together you have to map their functions and connections. That builds a mental model for architecture and maintenance. (Most humans come by our personal mental models honestly.) I understand the "perspective from across the table", I would have the same "where are you from" reflex. We give labels as a shortcut to classification within human governance systems, as an aid to engagement and even predicting capabilities and behaviors. In my observation, each of our mindsets becomes an algorithm for the human impulse of striving and contention within a social field and the "rules" of engagement. My aim in postings (not perfect) is simply to encourage people to stop defending the modern system’s propaganda, ism and tribal superiority/supremacy BS we’ve all been raised under. The only shortcut I know to overcome all of this is to build something using a pro-social mindset. Wishing you the best in finding something worthy of your time and dedication to build.

@RJGOnTweeter @nxt888 You have a true western mindset...

The American education system does not teach empire. This is not an accident. It teaches the Revolution. It teaches the Constitution. It teaches the Civil War in a way that frames it primarily as a story of "national healing" rather than unfinished reckoning. It teaches World War II as the definitive American story: the sleeping giant awakened, the "arsenal of democracy," the liberation of Europe, the moral clarity of that specific conflict deployed as a permanent filter through which all subsequent American violence can be viewed as basically continuous with defeating Hitler. It does not teach the Philippines, where the U.S. military killed somewhere between 200,000 and 1,000,000 people between 1899 and 1913 during the Philippine-American War, a war most Americans have never heard of. It does not teach the Banana Wars, where the U.S. military intervened repeatedly in Central America and the Caribbean to protect the commercial interests of American corporations. It does not teach the full history of Iran: the 1953 coup that removed a democratically elected prime minister and installed a Shah who ran a torture state, because the elected prime minister wanted to nationalize Iranian oil. It does not honestly teach Korea, 1945-53. Guatemala, 1954. Vietnam, 1954-75. Lebanon, 1958 and 1982-84. The Congo, 1960-65. Cuba, 1961. Brazil, 1964. Dominican Republic, 1965. Haiti, across the 20th century. Indonesia, 1965. Greece, 1947-49 and 1967-74. Laos, 1964-73. Cambodia, 1969-75. Chile, 1973. Angola, 1975-1991. Argentina, 1976-1983. Nicaragua, the 1980s. El Salvador, the 1980s. Grenada, 1983. Panama, 1989. Afghanistan, 1979-92 and 2001–21. Iraq, 1991-2003 and 2003-11. Somalia, 1992-95. Sudan, 1998. Yugoslavia, 1999. Yemen, 2002-25. Venezuela, 2002 and 2014-present. Honduras, 2009. Libya, 2011. Syria, 2012-26. Ukraine, 2014-present. It does not teach these things honestly because a population that understood them would have a very different relationship to the word "freedom" when its government uses it to justify intervention. The ignorance is load-bearing. Remove it, and the entire moral architecture of American exceptionalism becomes uninhabitable. They know this. The curriculum is not an oversight. The curriculum is a choice, made deliberately, renewed continuously, defended furiously whenever teachers try to expand it. The most powerful weapon American empire has ever deployed is not the aircraft carrier. It is the history class.

Incentives, property rights, reciprocity & division of labor raise living standards — not any "-ism". We saw it in feudal artisanal economies, mercantilism during the Scientific/Industrial Revolutions, and China’s post-1978 reforms (profit-sharing + markets) and widened to rural communities through partial privatization of profit from farming and smart phone connected economies. Treating any of the 3 archetype roles in systems of production (capital allocator/owner, manager, or worker) as expendable erodes the fairness that makes specialization possible. Perhaps the opportunity in debates like this is to present bedrock understanding of social systems in the context of collaborative production. Governments under any ism have become reliable organizers of greed in service to extractors.

@omgsidewalks Without capitalism most people would be beggars living in shacks, depending on wild game and roots for food. Labor is a tool to produce. The amount paid is based on the worth of the laborer to the employer. Labor takes no risks financially. Commie putz.

“Capitalism made your iPhone.” No, LABOR actually did. Labor makes things under any -ism. The -isms only just determine who is paid and how much they’re being paid.

Another effect of the recurring pattern of wounded, prolific minds is the individual and societal entropy production. This leads to the loss of social and societal dynamism that occurs when available pathways contract. (see attached Generative Dynamics and Cognitive Architecture References) In the Generative Dynamics reference architecture, Hilbert to Classical Phase Space (attached), there is a combined Hamiltonian and Lagrangian effect: the energy landscape (Hamiltonian) and constrained action paths (Lagrangian) cause the state space of possible actions to shrink dramatically. When individual arbitrage, reciprocity, and fair exchange are structurally diminished, the system loses both its minima (safe, regenerative states) and its maxima (expansive, innovative states). What remains is a muted form of persistence: societies that continue to function at a surface level but lack the rich, high-dimensional dynamism required for true adaptability and emergence. This entropy is not chaotic disorder. It is ordered stagnation , the monad writ large. (see my previous post) Within the cognitive architecture, human reason presides over the reduced state space by forming the monad (Leibniz) as a defensive worldview. The mind (and the society it inhabits) collapses inward, creating self-contained, low-variance worldviews because the broader landscape of possible pathways has been narrowed. Survival circuitry still scans for threats, but the threats now register as loss of optionality itself. In the automated world this becomes especially dangerous. Labor’s necessity (through individual arbitrage) once kept the state space wide and the flywheel of reciprocity spinning. As that necessity fades, the behavioral economy shifts toward significance and transcendence, yet the structural pathways for exercising agentic power continue to narrow. The result is a pathological pyramid that persists, but with greatly reduced societal dynamism. Meaning-making may increase at the individual level, but without restored countervailing power and open pathways, it risks becoming a sophisticated form of internal compensation rather than a regenerative force. What results from the marginalization observed by Marx or Doomers, is not simply increased entropy and maximum disorder, as we move to totalitarian political management compatible with a human OS that becomes digital, it is the quiet death of possibility spaces.

Marx saw alienation everywhere. AI doomers see optimization everywhere. Maybe the recurring pattern is not "genius discovers the hidden machine," but "a wounded, prolific mind universalizes its own vulnerability into a theory of civilization."

@dr_ed_tate You may find this upcoming meeting next week on Thursday evening at 6:30 pm central interesting from our local group IoT and Beyond. AI Safety Awareness Project: Giving the Public a Voice in an AI Future - meetup.com/iottexas/event… (available by Google Meet remote connection)

I was invited to give a keynote speech, to about 60 students and alumni from my college fraternity today. Most were engineers with some computer science majors. I decided to look back 40 years and discuss how the next 40 will be different. It was a lot of fun talking about the disruptive changes at school and work over the past 40 years. How CAD replaced blueprints, email replace inter-org envelopes, power point replaced flimsies, etc. In the second half of the speech, I talked about the next 40 years. I started this by asking the audience what disruptions they saw next. In sync, the whole audience of students and alumni answered exactly what I expected #AI. Not a single answer differed. What I did not expect was the tone. I can not quite describe it. The best description might be a combination of existential dread and cold anger. The more I reflect on that response, the more uncomfortable I am.

As a technologist and student of anthropology, I see what you are describing in Marx and in many AI doomers as a shared human pattern detection mechanism. Both detect defects in fairness and reciprocation that are essential to exercising agentic economic arbitrage. My observation of the flow is this: marginalization → loss of individual arbitrage → formation of the monad (world view) The monad (Leibniz) becomes the mind’s defensive architecture: a self-contained, indivisible unit that reflects the entire universe from the vantage point of its own unhealed vulnerability. The theorist doesn’t just notice the defect, they become the defect’s cosmologist. The personal loss of leverage is projected outward until it becomes a total theory of civilization.

In all human systems, the me-to-we integration is always the core challenge for societal resiliency, open-mindedness, and cohesion. Resiliency and cohesion are bound by acts of individual sacrifice. Sacrifice is a forward-looking behavior rooted in the belief that we can make a better tomorrow by forgoing a gain today, whether in the organic tribalism of family or community. Shared stories, from your earlier posts, are key to aligning this durable, sustainable society. Looking at the factors that compel organic collectivism, recent teachings from Professor Jiang (@xueqinjiang) reminds us of the durability of human magic of creativity that inspires innovation and helps us overcome adversity and the force that durably unifies us, called love. I want to stand in solidarity with Professor Jiang in saying that love is superior force to all forces that want to subvert and exploit humanity, IMHO, because it is still within our power to possess and express it without any need of any top down coercion. And I also agree with the professor that our future relevance as humans in the Age of AI is only going to be bright if we are willing to read widely, and deeply on topics which helps us think critically. This is still uniquely human and a "competitive moat" humans have against synthetic intelligence. Wishing you success in your continued exploration and journey in finding grounding that surpasses isms or ideologies.

@RJGOnTweeter @nxt888 Levels of analysis and dialects. Language, information sharing and collaboration put us ahead of monkeys. Competition’s no problem, private ownership and otherwise aimless accumulation is, so is looking after yourself without looking after what you’re part of that enables you.

A country that has been bombed by America knows what America is. A country that has been sanctioned into poverty by America knows what America is. A country whose elected government was overthrown by American intelligence knows what America is. Only American citizens, sitting inside the country that did all of this, remain genuinely uncertain about what America is. This is not a coincidence. This is the one information environment on earth that was designed, resourced, and sustained specifically to prevent that knowledge from becoming normal. Hollywood. Textbooks. The nightly news. The "national interest" frame that converts every act of imperial violence into a defensive response to external threat. The most sophisticated propaganda operation in history was never aimed at the enemy. It was aimed at home.

@victorywiilcome @nxt888 Unfortunately for ordinary citizens, justice tends to be defined by lawyers or solicitors of the wealthy. This is always the point. We all suffer under the boot of the privileged.

@RJGOnTweeter @nxt888 Vanuatu also had its own struggles with its political class. Were you trying to make a point?

Interesting how someone from New Zealand @h_tam76, with whom I have never had an exchange, posted 5 replies to my simple statement about the immigration backlog America has but other countries I mentioned don't and then blocked me so I could not respond to his post. I made no superiority claim on capitalism, but have and always will push back hard on my ism is better than your ism, because it is a top vs bottom issue. The top is filled with sociopaths because that is part of the job requirements at that level. I don't like it but it is a condition common in anything over tribal (300 people) size. If you have real courage @h_tam76 why did you block someone so they could not respond to your comments? So here are my responses to your comments so the world can see them. 📷Tom H. (sovo)@h_tam76 Or why 9 million Americans live abroad for cheaper healthcare and better safety nets. Migration reflects global inequality and geopolitics, not some capitalist victory lap. @rjgontweeter Expats are all over, and the cheaper part is true enough. My observation was merely that America has a backlog. 📷Tom H. (sovo)@h_tam76 That’s like saying a nightclub is unpopular because the bouncer won’t let anyone in. If migration proved which system works, then explain why millions move to Germany, Canada, Sweden, and Norway ..all heavily socialised economies. @rjgontweeter OECD data shows that two top reasons for migration to Germany, Sweden and Norway were not related to inequality but war refugees and EU labor mobility. Canada is the exception in being sought for better economic opportunity and conditions. 📷Tom H. (sovo)@h_tam76 When one system gets to dominate the world economy and the other gets strangled at birth, migration patterns don’t prove anything. China and Russia don’t have ‘backlogs’ because they don’t allow mass immigration. @rjgontweeter On dominance, as common in post war arrangements in the last 500 years. Spanish Silver Dollar (Piece of Eight) - the first true global reserve currency. Built on Spain’s brutal conquest of the Aztecs and Incas, flooding the world with silver from American mines. Spanish empire ran on extraction, religious zeal, and military expansion. No different tribal aggression, just with Catholic framing. Dutch Guilder - rose after the Dutch fought an 80-year war for independence from Spain, then dominated global trade through the VOC while warring with England and others. Calvinist republic, aggressive merchants, same realist playbook. British Pound Sterling - crowned after defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, with the British Royal Navy enforcing Pax Britannica. Empire built on opium wars, colonization, and industrial muscle. “Civilizing mission” rhetoric on top, raw power underneath. US Dollar - took over post-WWII after America emerged as the only major economy not wrecked by the war. Bretton Woods cemented it through leverage, not purity. Moral of the Story - There is no such thing as a noble empire, just competing ones, and they routinely employ external aggression, especially late stage Empires around the 250 year mark. On Russian and China Migration Policy Russia has recently opened its immigration to India due to labor shortages, with current shortfalls of about 2.3M people and projected of about 11M people by 2030. China is opening its borders due to STEM professional shortages, this is not being offered as permanent settlement, but work visas. 📷Tom H. (sovo)@h_tam76 That says nothing about capitalism being ‘superior.’ And let’s not pretend the world ever got a fair comparison. Capitalism was allowed to expand globally; communism was isolated, sanctioned, invaded, or overthrown every time it appeared. @rjgontweeter I never said capitalism was superior, and the history of any empire and the wars and covert regime changes are pretty endless. China's own expansion philosophy and policy still have a displacement strategy employed. The United States through many agencies, including the National Endowment for Democracy and of course the CIA routinely overthrow any government or country that goes against the "interest" of the United States. However as far as isolation and sanctioning it was limited to competing Empires or those that would not sell out to Empire interest. (this is a standard pattern of Empire). 📷Tom H. (sovo)@h_tam76 People don’t migrate because they’re endorsing an ideology .. they migrate because of wealth gaps, historical power, and visa policies. The U.S. has been rich for a long time, so of course people move there. @rjgontweeter I would say we agree on this, most are not migrating based on ideology, although I know many don't believe Russia or China are "desirable destinations" as societies. Coming to actual migration reasons, I would say that what is common to nearly all migration or immigrants is the hope for an improved chance for life.

@OrevaZSN Interesting how people from Marxist and Communist and other economy types decided that America was their best chance. I may have missed and episode, does Russia and China or Africa have a backlog of people wanting to get into their country?

In a capitalist economy, if you aren’t born into wealth, your only capital is your labor. So your body is reduced to a commodity you are forced to sell. If you can’t sell it for enough to survive and maintain yourself, you lose your only capital.