alt Hacker NewsThe fact that some in Switzerland wanted to cap population at 10 million says a lot about their free market. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/14/switzerland-re...
Fortunately, the referendum failed. I mean, sure it's nice to have a small population, but I think it's also important to try to improve economic migration everywhere.
I actually live in a rural area in the U.S, and was surprised to see that I now have a 2-3 fiber offerings. A few years ago there was just one fiber company, but a utility company helped roll it out and I currently use it on a 100Mbps symmetrical plan (for what I use, it's more than enough).
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Switzerland is a democracy, another concept foreign to Americans. People vote on all sorts of things all the time.
I'm not sure what economic migration is. Economic for whom? I'm not taking a side by asking, merely wondering.
It was a referendum. Anyone can trigger a referendum if they have 100k signatures. This was not the government position.