The greatest human migration in history will happen in the next decade

Brilliant article and such a key opportunity/challenge for governments. The fastest to enable immigration and taxation systems to cope will thrive.

Interesting article, and definitely see big opportunity in remote work, but skeptical on the whole mass migration, nomad movement to the scale that Pieter thinks is coming.

His definition is "work remotely from a different country" and I think that's a tough sell for a lot of people (unless you're talking about people doing something like a short workcation).

A much more likely trend is the people will move out of the big cities to places close enough to get back too on a regular basis.

For example, I live about 2 hours away from both Boston and NYC, and so I've had the advantages of living in a small town with access to all the things big cities can offer, whenever I need them.

The vast number of people doing remote work in the pandemic wouldn't fit with the nomadic definition, so still a long way to go before we a mass migration to the nomadic lifestyle.

Perhaps in the world outside of the USA it's more likely, since countries are much smaller, but I'd be surprised if large numbers of people in America turned nomadic.

We will still see big shifts in society as people spread to fill more of their countries, instead of being concentrated in big cities, so overall yes Pieter is correct in his thesis, just niggling on some of the specifics 😀