“[T]he U.S. border effect on the wages of equal intrinsic productivity workers is greater than any form of wage discrimination (gender, race, or ethnicity) that has ever been measured,” observe three economists. It’s apartheid on a global scale. In the twenty-first century, the real elite are those born not in the right family or the right class but in the right country.34 Yet this modern elite is scarcely aware of how lucky it is.
