any attempt to solve anything without math is doomedhttps://twitter.com/Isegoria/status/1504081806554923008 …
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7/ perform the thought experiment where the US ceases to interact w the rest of the world at all. Giant force field around the US, nothing goes in or out. Are third world poor freed from their oppression ? Of course not, bc there never was any oppression.
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8/ yes, that is the argument that Caplan is making ... and I point at it and call it 'tarded.https://twitter.com/ANiculitcheff/status/1504084801137094660 …
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9/ even if we don't give the 1B foreigners the right to vote, we DO grant congressional representation to the liberals who live in same states as them so NY, w 20 M citizens and 1 B foreigners, gets 341 Representatives in House, other 49 states get 94https://twitter.com/TheCornucopian/status/1504092527628009474 …
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10/ Picture 20 million New York state liberals running absolutely unchecked in US Domestic politics, running the entire country...plus 1 billion non English speaking foreigners covering the state in favelas. Brian Caplan is an absolute enemy of western civilization
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11/ here's a challenge to
@bryan_caplan : if being inside the US is so good for the global poor, why physically move them here and not just expand our borders? Declare that Guatemala is now a US territory, US laws apply there...but Guatemalans have no right to enter CONUS.Show this thread -
12/ Congrats! Guatemalans now have US IP protection, US courts, US income taxes, free trade w US, US building codes, US food inspections. Hire 10,000 bureaucrats down there to implement it. If this experiment works, do Columbia next. If not, not.
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13/ yep, he's def smart, and I've heard from a f2f friend of his that he's a nice guy ...but his autistic microscopic view on GDP would absolutely destroy civilizationhttps://twitter.com/AvailableUsrnam/status/1504096498396667913 …
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14/ I've read his book and I found it stupid and bad. A dozen different objections I had were not "addressed" they were quickly and cheaply glossed over.https://twitter.com/perrymetzger/status/1504096919932612612 …
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15/ re "conquest": fine - hold a vote in Guatemala first. ...but if we're saying that conquest is bad, perhaps that has some bearing on the idea of subjecting 330 million Americans to 1 billion new neighbors who will immediately become their political enemies?
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16/ "America's institutions are good; Guatemalans deserve them" ok, let's just extend those to Guatemalans...to help them. "we can't subject 17 million Guatemalans to conquest" ok, fair "let's import 1B foreigners into America" isn't that conquest? "no, that's different"
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