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The vast majority of people will have encountered gaming of citizenship and entry to countries, and the exploitation of the welfare system. In my country most universities have 50%+ of their holdings in China, and offer student visas with promise that it will lead to a path to citizenship. The study is irrelevant, any degree is a pathway, so it is sold as a way to buy citizenship rather than a way to offer learning to other nations people and was always designed this way because it's more profitable for universities than selling education is. This has been going on for at least two decades I am aware of.

Further, another big gaming of the system here is religious polygamy, in a quarter of a century we have gone from 100% one ethnic group to 37% of the original ethnic group. The vast majority of migrants are from asia and the middle east where Islam is prevalent. Because polygamy is not legally recognized it means that their additional wives are 'single mothers' and get given a house, a wage, and a stipend of support for each child. The husband then has a petty fiefdom where he has a half dozen homes he can bounce between.

In many instances they will just buy one big house, but then use the additional four or five homes as rental properties bringing in $500-800 a week per house ($17200 per month, on top of each wife getting $38,000, and each child getting $12,000 per year in support payments). So a man with say 4 wives with 5 children with each wife will be getting $430,000, renting out his free houses will be bringing in about $825,600, or $1,255,600 per year from the tax payer. The average wage of a working man in my country who works six days a week 12 hour days is about $28,000 or double that if you've got a college degree. So using this system they earn the equivalent of 44 mens wages. Or the 100% of the tax contributions of 119 mens hard work. This leads to much civil disdain when people lob up from safe countries pretending they're fleeing war then end up driving a brand new merc or BMW their first year landing while natives are grinding away just trying to survive. 2001:8003:2998:5100:50FD:2CD8:8930:2A5B (talk) 03:12, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]