Exit Routes Vanishing

The window to reposition closes quietly. No announcement. No decree. Just coordinated regulatory tightening across jurisdictions until arbitrage becomes impossible and movement requires permission.

Global minimum tax agreement signed 2021. Implementation 2024. Corporate tax floor 15% globally. Countries cannot undercompete anymore. Ireland, Singapore, Switzerland, UAE, all forced compliance. Race to bottom ends. Tax arbitrage dies. Capital remains wherever domiciled because moving saves nothing.

This was test. Worked perfectly. Next, individual taxation harmonization. Proposed quietly. Discussed in G20 meetings. Framed as "fairness" and "tax justice." Actually coordination to prevent exit. Can't escape to low-tax jurisdiction when all jurisdictions taxed identically.

OECD Common Reporting Standard operational since 2017. Banks report foreign accounts to home countries automatically. 100+ countries participating. Your offshore account? Known. Your foreign assets? Tracked. Your international transfers? Monitored. Financial secrecy dead. Wealth visible globally. Taxed accordingly.

Cryptocurrency supposed to fix this. Didn't. Exchanges require KYC verification. Transactions monitored. Mixing services illegal. Privacy coins delisted. Bitcoin traceable through blockchain analysis. Monero barely accessible. Regulators won. Exit through crypto closed.

Capital controls next. Implemented during "temporary crisis." Never lifted. China already has them, $50,000 annual limit outbound. India implementing. Europe considering. US will eventually. Crisis provides justification. Pandemic. War. Financial instability. Climate emergency. Reason doesn't matter. Controls implemented. Made permanent.

You have savings abroad? Must justify why. Business purposes accepted. Personal diversification rejected. Want to move $100,000 to foreign account? Requires documentation. Justification. Approval. Often denied. Appeal takes months. Frequently unsuccessful. Your money trapped domestically.

Passport restrictions tightening simultaneously. Used to be, citizenship by investment available cheaply. Malta, Cyprus, Caribbean islands, $100,000 to $500,000 bought passport. Now, programs canceled or scrutinized heavily. EU pressured Malta. Cyprus halted program. Caribbean islands raising prices, adding restrictions. Exit through investment closing.

Visa requirements intensifying. Digital nomad visas exist but require income proof, tax compliance, health insurance, background check. Rejected frequently. Approved temporarily. Renewed conditionally. You're permitted to stay, not guaranteed. Revoked when inconvenient.

Regional blocs forming. Not openly hostile. Just administratively segmented. US-Europe bloc. China-Asia bloc. Russia-Central Asia bloc. Each bloc facilitates internal movement. Restricts external movement. You're American? Move freely within Americas and Europe. Visit Asia? Difficult. Relocate there? Nearly impossible. Vice versa for Asian citizens.

Blocs coordinate controls internally. US implements CBDC, Europe follows compatible system. Interoperability within bloc. Incompatibility between blocs. Your digital dollar works in America and Europe. Doesn't work in China. Their digital yuan doesn't work here. Travel requires currency conversion at official rates. Capital movement tracked completely. Arbitrage impossible.

Crisis justification for permanent controls repeated everywhere. Pandemic justified health passports. War justified capital controls. Climate justifies carbon rationing. Financial instability justifies CBDC monitoring. Each crisis expands control. Each control stays permanent. Each restriction normalizes next restriction.

Speech restricted algorithmically. Post wrong content, flagged. Repeated violations, account limited. Severe violations, deplatformed. No trial. No appeal. Just algorithmic enforcement. Can't organize resistance when platforms silence dissent automatically.

Banking contingent on compliance. ESG score too low? Account services limited. Social credit insufficient? Loan denied. Behavioral profile concerning? Transaction monitoring intensified. Each restriction legal individually. Combined create control system impossible to escape.

International movement requires layered permissions. Passport, checked. Vaccination status, verified. Carbon quota, calculated. Destination approval, required. Return ticket, mandatory. Financial sufficiency, proved. Background clearance, completed. Each clearable individually. Combined create friction preventing most travel.

You wanted to relocate permanently? Requires immigration approval, points system based on skills, wealth, age, health. Insufficient points? Denied. Appeals? Rarely successful. You're trapped in birth jurisdiction.

The wealthy positioned earlier. Acquired multiple passports before crackdown. Established offshore structures before transparency rules. Relocated assets before capital controls. Built networks before movement restrictions. They're grandfathered. You're not.

You're reading this now. Thinking you'll reposition when crisis peaks. Wrong. By then borders closed. Capital controls active. Accounts frozen. Movement restricted. Permissions required. You're trapped.

Window closing currently. Not closed yet. But narrowing. Years remaining maybe. Months possibly. Each jurisdiction tightening coordination. Each crisis justifying restriction. Each control normalizing next step.

Tax harmonization coming. Already implemented for corporations. Individuals next. Can't escape high taxes anywhere because everywhere taxed identically.

Capital tracking complete. Every account visible. Every transfer monitored. Every asset known. Can't hide wealth anymore.

Movement restricted progressively. Visas harder. Immigration stricter. Regional blocs forming. Permissions required.

Digital controls comprehensive. CBDC tracks everything. Social credit gates access. Algorithmic enforcement automatic.

Speech monitored continuously. Platforms coordinate. Dissent suppressed. Organization prevented.

This is closed system. Entry difficult. Exit impossible. Movement requires permission. Savings require justification. Speech requires algorithmic tolerance. Compliance mandatory.

You're inside system. Can't leave. Can't hide. Can't resist effectively. Just comply or suffer consequences.

Window to reposition closes quietly. No announcement when it shuts completely. You'll just discover one day that every exit route closed, every arbitrage eliminated, every escape impossible.

Most discover too late. Probably you too.