[ExI] Open migration/was Re: Repudiating the national debt

[John Clark]

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:03 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com
> wrote:

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> Do you know of any data on the IQs of immigrants?
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​Well... we know that average ​immigrant is more likely to be anti-Trump
than the average Republican, so the average immigrant must have a higher IQ
than the average Republican.

​ John K Clark​








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> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Rafal Smigrodzki <
> rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> ### Yes, by all means, you do need to make your country great, because
>>> in sick countries smaller communities are devoured by their neighbors.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what that means.
>>>
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>> ### The Congo is a sick country. The Bantus rape and pillage the Pygmies,
>> the Pygmies kill Bantus. Constant violence, every tribe against every other
>> tribe, is the norm there. There is no place for anarchocapitalists there.
>>
>> You want to keep your country great - free, orderly, high-trust, safe,
>> healthy.
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>>> Open immigration of low-IQ and hostile people would dramatically lower
>>> our standard of living. Also, proximity + diversity = war.
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>>>
>>> Note that you added hostile. Are most people hostile? Are most
>>> immigrants? Isn't it note that anti-foreign bias can be a driver here -- by
>>> being hostile to newcomers?
>>>
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>> ### Unassimilable immigrants often enough become hostile to the locals.
>> The world today is built on the bones of people displaced and destroyed by
>> hostile newcomers.
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>>> Also, low-IQ folks would also be much more productive in the West than
>>> in their native lands. The typical hypothetical of the <fill in the blank>
>>> moving to a Western city and becoming a cab driver and increasing their
>>> real income a ten-fold might hint at this. The actual numbers seem to show
>>> it's the case.
>>>
>>> ### Read Garrett's "Hive Mind". The IQ-70 immigrant will increase her
>> income tenfold but her children will lower average IQ of the society,
>> eventually bringing it down to the original expected value of the IQ-70
>> people.
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>> Rafał
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