Well, emigration *has* repeatedly been a response over the centuries to all kinds of distress, including economic hardship. That's how the bulk of the USA's population got here, after all. The problem is one of scale. It doesn't work to do that with an entire continent of people. Emigration due to economic hardship is kind of interesting, really. You have to be badly enough off to want to leave everything and everyone you know behind, but you have to be well enough off to accumulate the surplus wealth for a plane ticket and to set yourself up in your destination country until you find gainful employment. And you can't be the victim of generations or centuries of systemized discrimination and oppression, either, to the point where it's extinguished all hope of ever helping yourself.

Your friend obviously doesn't understand the concept of limited resources.

Well they could move! To the country next door, which is probably just as impoverished/corrupt/war-torn/all of the above as the one they just left.

Your friend must be stupid.

"My friend is a dumbass. FML" Your life must suck sooo much.

Damn Kony.

Hey Kayla you're pretty cute. We should text.

Amen to that lol why would anyone want to live there? Just kidding ppl dont jump down my throat

*facepalm*

That's a Jeremy Clarkson moment.