<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On May 18, 2016, at 5:01 AM, Rafal Smigrodzki <<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 1:23 AM, Dan TheBookMan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>><br>> ### Well, yeah, but it's much easier to make your own country flourish first,<br>> and in fact you pretty much have to make it flourish if you ever want to have<br>> the resources you need to fix the universe.<br><br></div>Not at all. One can work in smaller communities. To believe, for instance, in the US example, that somehow 230 plus million people is a magic number seems arbitrary, an accident of history. Also, an immediate way to improve everyone's lives would be simple to open the borders -- allow free migration across the borders. Then the boost in productivity would, by most estimates be a more than doubling of the world's standard of living.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Yes, by all means, you do need to make your country great, because in sick countries smaller communities are devoured by their neighbors.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure what that means. </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Open immigration of low-IQ and hostile people would dramatically lower our standard of living. Also, proximity + diversity = war.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://author.to/DanUst</font></a></div></div></div></body></html>