The number of refugees in the world is growing, now at an all-time high of nearly 60 million people. A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has a radical idea: Let’s create a new country for all these people. He suggests using one of the world’s less inhabited islands or a newly built island. Other specific solutions: The new “refugee” state would be a pluralist, capitalist democracy, with a “strong work culture” and not a “culture of benefits.” Its language would be English.
A solution to the refugee crisis: Create a new country
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