[brm]

This shouldn't just be for the remotely employed. We need to do more decouple freedom of movement from employment by a company.

Perhaps there should be something like this: An International Creative or Digital Visa that countries can sign onto.

This proposal is a good start for what it should be: http://artsvisa.org/ireland/

Have something to contribute. Be able to support yourself. Don't compete for an in country job and any country should welcome your residence/citizenship.

There's no reason something like this doesn't exist in a global digital age.

[throwaway894345]

> Have something to contribute. Be able to support yourself. Don't compete for an in country job and any country should welcome your residence/citizenship.

I think agree with this, but I'm not sure what this looks like apart from "remote employment". How do you not compete for an in-country job without being employed remotely? Even if you're a self-employed plumber, for example, you're still competing for a job in your host country (your presence increases the supply of plumbing services without the corresponding increase in demand).

[brm]

If you design and sell tshirts globally on the internet or freelance copy edit for clients in and out of country or exhibit and sell your art internationally these are all sorts of things that are not in competition with local employment but currently have limited movement and residency options. They're not pure examples but I think they work for what people are typically concerned with when it comes to immigration and residency.

[throwaway894345]

Fair enough, I was categorizing that as “working remotely”, but I see your point.

I’d be curious to hear from the people who downvoted me though.

[kranner]

Being wealthy or just having enough in savings to not have to work for a while seems the obvious alternative.