Why People Move: Ideology vs. Economics
What actually drives people to leave one country for another? A listener named Daniel — whose grandfather left Cork, Ireland for Israel at twenty-five — argues he moved for ideology, not opportunity, and that as a rational actor he'd rather have avoided it. That claim opens up the whole field of migration economics: push-pull models, self-selection, the three-way split between voluntary, forced, and workforce migration, and why the same country can pull one person in while pushing another out. The episode also digs into why nobody has ever produced a clean percentage breakdown of migrant…
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