The idea of making positive political rights freely alienable (i.e. tradable) keeps coming up. @j_arthur_bloom was on it a while back. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @j_arthur_bloom
... It would sort out the whole political mess automatically, and that wouldn't even be the end of its advantages. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @j_arthur_bloom
... By sticking a market price onto the certification of full-citizenship, it would make clear how much value is being squandered. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @j_arthur_bloom
... Most convenient outcome would be to separate residency permission from citizenship. Bingo -- "guest workers".
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Replying to @Outsideness @j_arthur_bloom
You'd end up with a slave society. Birthright citizenship was created when we abolished slavery and not by accident.
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Replying to @SpeakingBee @j_arthur_bloom
Every organized society outside the West seems to run guest-worker-type residential arrangements without serious problems.
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... The objectively peculiar Western presumption that emancipation requires enfranchisement is the root of all our most serious problems.
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