so as someone without strong feelings and also who is unwilling to ever read noah why screen by country of origin instead of just determining (i) desired immigration level, and then (ii) executing an annual or w/e second-price auction for the immigration rights?
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also note its 100% unambiguously color blind
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According to many influential people, including members of the US Supreme Court, policies that have disparate impact are not colorblind.
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lol how do they feel about wars targeting specific countries full of people of a shared national background
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This is really an interesting idea. It could even work for candidates that didn't have a lot of "up front" liquidity. "Equity financing" could be arranged for "good bets" that would be deducted from subsequent earnings.
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Indentured servitude?
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pretty much! if such contracts could be enforced, they might be pretty efficient
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Actually, what if we just brought a bunch of poor black people over from Africa, and forced them to work but gave them a better standard of living than they had over there?
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I mean it's the usual credit-rationing problem in the end I bet :)
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"Why not just turn citizenship into property or a commodity?!" Wait. You're ancap-ish. You might actually be ok w/ this. Also, I don't have detailed thoughts on why this is good or bad. Hmm.
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this isnt really ancap-y, just: if we're going to have immigration of a certain number of people, why bother with clunky methods for selecting those people when we have elegant methods for distributing such rights call it a varying immigration fee if that preserves sacredness :)
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one knock might be that we should be bringing in people who maximize some mix of loyalty and productivity, not just productivity, and commodified citizenship makes the former hard to guarantee. others argue there should also be a cultural compatibility factor
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hmmmmmmmm I wonder about that. I can imagine it going the other direction too; seems like a muddy empirical question. My expectation is that US culture is (was?!!) powerful enough to dissolve most cultural compatibility issues, but we could penalize certain bids if needed.
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