Only if they have a deportation order. There are scenarios where people are in an in between state or have the ability to challenge a deportation order

Its rent seeking because they’re using the government role to bring in the dough for themselves after they get the role. It just takes a bit of money upfront similar to a landlord buying a house. That’s also how you restrict government roles to the rich who only use it for personal gain. Similar to people who believe that Trump is generously by “donating” his salary back but not realizing that he and his family are earning far more in bribes and kickbacks using his position.

You're asserting a lot of things that aren't in the article. If you want to argue Victorian-era MPs were all motivated by corruption then go ahead but you'll need to cite strong evidence for that, because the general consensus was that MPs of that time were not particularly corrupt. As the article says, they didn't even spend much time on lawmaking at all, so there wasn't a lot of legislation to abuse.

The pre-Victorian system was known as the "Old Corruption" (capitalized), so while it was less so there was still quite a high baseline.

https://historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/papers/old-corrup...

It's not asserting corruption. they were the voluntary caretakers of a system designed to ensure their prosperity and they provided their time and energy so that the system would continue to do so.

The system was already set-up to their maximum benefit. Their corruption was in making sure nothing changed, no matter the clamoring of the vast majority.

The problem is the counter-examples. We have dysfunctional cleptocracies worldwide. They go nowhere. Last of all, they do not conquer- and transfer there money outside towards high-trust societies. Thus by the empire they conquered- they can not have been as corrupt as the others. If the machine you build kills it- you can not have eaten that machine faster than it produces pocket butter.

Mandatory if you don’t want to see ads in your start menu and search

Don’t forget about those of us who want 2DWW /s

Better get great at producing value in less total time.

Those in tech, at least on average, are fantastic at producing more value in increasingly less time. That doesn't translate to less time in the seat, though. It only means higher and higher expectations.

What he needs instead is a moat.

> That doesn't translate to less time in the seat, though.

Not necessarily, no!

The Air Force does launching and flying over land as well as land based missiles. Flying over water is the navy’s business.

The current U.S. administration doesn’t know what they want in Iran. It’s not a capability issue.

Most veterans don’t have security clearances after getting out of the military if their next job doesn’t need it

It’s more efficient to spend your ammo on housing and city buildings.

Wouldn’t it actually be much more efficient to just destroy all the food infrastructure and just have everyone die from hunger instead of destroying all the houses?

You're right, it is, hence the strikes on World Central Kitchen and the blockade on food entering the area.

they send armed settlers for the farms. they can't destroy those

I wouldn’t call that necessarily a good thing. Stable societies can have a decrease in population after peaking.

They’re not all actually decreasing in population, they are increasing via mass migration, legal and illegal. That is how the elite strata of Western European societies and the Anglo sphere countries (US, Canada, Australia) are dealing with this.

In Japan, Korea, China, Hungary, etc they are indeed decreasing.

I wouldn’t necessarily say that a society where the marriage rates are so low is stable though. For some definition of stability yes, but usually we also mean healthy when we say stable.