why does anyone object to building a wall with such vehemence i still dont understand this seems like your options are (i) you actually want literal open borders or (ii) its purely symbolic weird twitter people excepted, and i say that with love, (i) seems a pretty sparse camp
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Replying to @eigenrobot
this discussion made me realize I should support the wall so Canada can more effectively moneyball global migration I don't, because ancap, but it's an angle I hadn't really considered
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Replying to @arachnocapital2
its insane to me that the us doesnt moneyball migration we could take in huge quantities of revenue AND an arbitrary number of exceptionally-capable immigrants with the right immigration permit auction mechanism
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Replying to @eigenrobot @arachnocapital2
If you employed a Vickrey what does your excess surplus you're maximizing become, immigrants or cash?
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depends how you frame this auction winners get surplus of value of immigration beyond Vickrey price, government gets N*price at presumably negligible cost plus whatever net lifetime tax revenue is for admitted folks
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