Today I'm reasoning what our immigrant life might be like in 100 years.
Generally, as I wrote in the previous article, moving to another country has ceased to be something surprising - get on a plane, and tomorrow you're already in Germany, and the day after - in India.
And also, today people are gradually starting to get used to the fact that you can work well from home and from the beach. Today's offices are made for people who work by yesterday's standards - they give us a desk, chair, a couple of random colleagues and a coffee machine.
However, more and more people need an office no more than wristwatches - why the hell do you need, one might ask, Vasya with sweaty socks, if you can come to a coffee shop, take out your laptop and write cool articles about Czech Republic for big bucks.
What's interesting - today's country policies also lag behind demand. You know how American entrepreneurs suffer from the fact that inviting a foreigner to work in the USA is like 2 hemorrhoids at once?
If you're a cool guy, HR people write to you every other day, ready to give everything just so you'd come code for them. Well, until it gets through to them that even though you're in Czech Republic, your passport is still Russian. And interestingly, I thought, when and in whose head in government will it click?
Here's my personal example: I'm a healthy single 27-year-old dude who works, pays considerable taxes, learns languages, helps cool guys like me get to Czech Republic. And you know what? I need to endure for 15 years to become a Czech citizen, and even then, without guarantees. It's like hoping that the girlfriend you dated with in 11th grade won't get fat by forty.
How do I see the future? Countries will fight to get the best people to come to them. Specially hired state HR people will write to you: "Hey, listen, we here in our Hungary thought - come to us, it's cheap here, we have a cool passport, goulash, we're in the center of Europe. We'll give you a card, just pay taxes". And the next day you get word from Panama: "We heard Hungary wrote to you. So, we have the same thing, only also with Spanish language, beach and bikinis. Better come to us".
And believe me, that's how it will be. It's already clear today that some of the most developed countries are those where many foreigners live. Even Russia during two weeks of World Cup transformed with foreigners. And it's a plus for the local population too - competition is higher.
It's a shame that today everything's a bit different: you need to prove every day that you're not a camel, not a log, not a gypsy, not a thug and not a slacker. Although it's obvious even to a goat that both I and a good half of my readers would be useful in any country today.
Anyway, couple more years, and I'll become president of Russia. As you can see, I don't suggest any bullshit, I'm not Navalny.