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Monday, July 2. 2018

Taleb on immigration

Via  Nassim Taleb Slams "These Virtue-Signaling Open-Borders Imbeciles" In 3 Short Tweets



What intellectuals don't get about MIGRATION is the ethical notion of SYMMETRY:


1) OPEN BORDERS work if and only if the number of pple who want to go from EU/US to Africa/LatinAmer equals Africans/Latin Amer who want to move to EU/US


2) Controlled immigration is based on the symmetry that someone brings in at least as much as he/she gets out. And the ethics of the immigrant is to defend the system as payback, not mess it up. 


Uncontrolled immigration has all the attributes of invasions.


3) As a Christian Lebanese, saw the nightmare of uncontrolled immigration of Palestinians which caused the the civil war & as a part-time resident of N. Lebanon, I am seeing the effect of Syrian migration on the place.


So I despise these virtue-signaling open-borders imbeciles.


Silver Rule in #SkinInTheGame


Posted by The News Junkie at 15:02 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Skin In The Game Is Right. The virtue signalers are not talking about their jobs or their neighborhoods. They are giving away what belongs to others.
#1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2018-07-02 21:30 (Reply)
As a big-L Libertarian, I am (in general) in favor of open borders. But you cannot have both open borders AND a massive welfare state. Since we already have a massive welfare state, open borders are impossible.
#2 Ken Mitchell (Link) on 2018-07-04 13:40 (Reply)

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