Tough luck, bucko. My lawn patch in the middle of the desert that I use solely for ostentatious display of wealth and not to cultivate isn't going to stay green by itself.

It's in the same vein as the YouTube apology videos that go "I'm sorry for offending you"

American libs when experiencing a fraction of the brutality they subjected others to:

I thought capitalists loved competition?

Exactly. They aren't moving to capitalist imperial periphery countries, those that have been ravaged and left poor after decades of exploitation, but rather the imperial core itself where the wealth is flocking and where someone with an education and not under the boot of debt can have a comfy life. I can see why someone would defect from East to West Germany for economic reasons alone. It's good to point out when people bring up fleeing from these countries that they aren't exactly moving to Nigeria or El Salvador or India.

That's my most sci-fi is uninteresting to me. The authors often just come up with some Times Square looking moon cities with billboards in space.