It's one of the reasons I've been collecting passports and residencies. Long time believer in the Sovereign Individual thesis. The welfare nation states will need to go through the "great adjustment" where they slowly go bankrupt. They can't avoid it and will be dangerous places as it happens. Already, in places like Canada, the majority of voters in the country are financially dependent on the government. Direct welfare, employment, subsidies, etc. Once you're dependent on the govt, you'll likely continue to vote for more socialism until your physical safety is directly at risk. It took Argentina 80 years to reach that point. As the world transitions multi-polar, I'm hoping there will be safe havens in the world (but not guaranteed, of course). Another part of the SI thesis is the decentralizing effects of technology. YOu can see that playing out in open source AI models. Always getting cheaper and easier to run locally. World in transition, but many reasons to be optimistic.