Ha! Sure, until you take 'em over. Then they inevitably make you take care of them, at least in modernity.
It goes back to the days of colonization. They've largely figured out that they can fuck that whole system up by just doing nothing.
Think about it... Do you want an extra 30,000,000 children to take care of?
Can't they take care of each other if they are not going to take care of themselves?
Why should they? You've now gotta provide for their education, defense, and welfare.
Fuck, if I was a country I'd be doing everything I could to make the United States take me over. I'd be all about that shit.
I suspect we'll merge with Mexico before we do so with Canada. Believe it or not, the reason behind why we'd merge with Mexico is climate change. We'd finally merge because we need to stem the tide of refugees at some point, and a longer border is a better border - so long as you can defend it.
To put it into a bit smaller a perspective, think of all the people who'd like to be one of my heirs and a family member as compared to how many want to be an heir from someone with less means.
They want to be your heir cause they are greedy. The lure of easy money has a very strong appeal.
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