24 September

Think longer-term. (The Chinese do.) In the next 40 years working-age people in the developing world (Africa and Asia mostly) will expand by about 1.5 billion people. In the same period working-age people in the developed world (us) will decline by more than 100 million. China and India will be the world economic superpowers. Already now and more then, most of the work of the world will be done in developing countries, while old rich countries like us will struggle to remain relevant, and will be desperate for workers. Even now countries like us will see fruit and vegetables rot without migrant labour, because of Covid.