Global citizenship can be yours, digitally acquired
Freedom of movement finally decoupled from where you were born
- Dateline
- 5 April 2029
In a world littered with dark and ominous reports, there’s finally some good news. Gone are the days when the place where your mother’s water broke, determined whether you would drown in visa applications for the rest of your life.
Before, only those who’ve won the citizenship lottery were able to criss-cross the globe to their heart’s content – free from spending hours and cash in order to beg for entry into foreign lands. Now, after the Global Alliance on Digital Trails has finally been given the go-ahead by the UN, the freedom to roam is in your hands.
The Alliance will allow anyone, regardless of country of origin, to create their own profile and upload supporting documents to generate a trust score. Governments around the world then use these trust scores to grant easy entry to travellers.
Spokesperson Addison Woo says: “We took the Chinese social credit score system and morphed it into something that gives the power and benefits back to the individual. While it still costs money to maintain your trusted profile, it’s a lot more affordable than multiple visas, especially when you factor in executive time spent in application interviews!”
Corporates are the first to jump on the ‘super passport’ bandwagon. You can now legally offer to forego certain employment benefits from a future employer, in return for a job, while raising your trust score to another level. Many would-be global citizens would rather have less pay in a stable city, than remain in what someone called a “sh*thole country.”
Who said big data and big brother always had to be bad? Besides, countries and borders are fictions created by humans, and it’s not like you had a choice where you were born. So why not allow people to legally game the system, increase global freedom, and reduce illegal migration, all at the same time?
Links to related stories
- What Would an Open-Borders World Actually Look Like? - The Nation, 24 April 2019
- Visa applications: emotional tax and privileged passports - LSE Blogs, 10 July 2019
- America could learn from the EU’s open borders - The Economist, 8 August 2018
- John McDonnell: Every country will have open borders by the end of the century - The Telegraph, 1 February 2016
- MindBullet: OPEN SESAME TO THE GOOD LIFE (Dateline 15 April 2021, Published 7 January 2016)
- MindBullet: BORDERS CRUMBLE, COUNTRIES MERGE AND SPLIT (Dateline 28 October 2023, Published 29 October 2015)
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