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/ …
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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@ne0liberal wrote might address some of your concerns about damage to institutions.https://medium.com/@ne0liberal/low-skilled-immigration-wont-hurt-american-society-a1a9132c7ed3 … -
TL;DR You can reasonably assume that letting in 2 million people a year is a safe level, given that: 1. That's less than 1% of the US population 2. When the US had open borders, immigration rates were around 0.8% 3. Australia and California has and had >1%, and it's working fine
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