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 …
It's a central policy issue where promoting the wrong answer is a catastrophic risk to several key civilizations. IMHO.
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How many separate key civilizations are there currently?
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A couple of years? Jesus were do all these thinkers come from?
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America has had open borders for the first 150 years of its life, and it survived. It may be easier to come over so we'd see bigger numbers. But the solution is to test out open borders on a small scale like one state, because the potential benefits are so big.
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What we the social security programs in place during those 150 years?
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