No, you go first. There is no burden to rebut arbitrary a priori BS. What's the quantative model that says this happens?
This short-sighted, reckless, and witless advocacy of open borders is the reason I stopped subscribing to @TheEconomist. Any rich country that adopted it would probably double its population within a couple of years and fall into chaos. (Or show me quantitative models otherwise.)https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1010187848098762753 …
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Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the effective altruism write up:https://concepts.effectivealtruism.org/concepts/immigration-reform/ …
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I am very familiar with the EA position on this, and it's one domain where the standard EA line is dead wrong, IMHO.
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To quote Barack Obama: ‘‘..American citizenship is a privilege and not a right; that without meaningful borders and respect for the law, the very things that brought them to America, the opportunities and protections afforded to those who live in the county will be eroded...’
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It's a central policy issue where promoting the wrong answer is a catastrophic risk to several key civilizations. IMHO.
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See, Europe
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What about Europe?
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Economist long ago became the anodyne elite opinion, almost completely untethered from the on the ground realities of policy implementation and big government/big corporate malfeasance.
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