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One thing that people don't realise about economic collapse is that immigration is a band-aid that will stop working soon. In fact a lot of middle-income countries are faring much worse than western countries, for example some cherry-picked births per woman numbers:

Brazil: 1.63 US: 1.66 France: 1.83 Sweden: 1.67 India: 2.03 China: 1.16 Thailand: 1.33

People in rich countries are having more children on average than middle-income countries. A lot of people are saying that subsiding children (free daycare, free schools, free healthcare, stipends, etc) is not working, but the data seems clear to me. It does work, but it is not enough to keep replacement births going . Especially when you look at the trends of births per woman in those countries).

Within our lifetimes I think we will see reverse immigration, rich-country people moving to middle-income countries for jobs in order to exploit natural resources because there are too little locals to do it. And rich countries removing barriers for immigration and still have trouble getting people to move in.