<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">That argument STILL has a lot of power. Denmark which you mentioned is one of the countries now dealing with the effects of it (along with any other small European nation that has ingested very large amounts of immigrants from trouble spots in a very short amount of time):<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.thelocal.dk/20181128/population-of-people-with-non-danish-ethnic-backgrounds-to-exceed-800000-by-2060-report">https://www.thelocal.dk/20181128/population-of-people-with-non-danish-ethnic-backgrounds-to-exceed-800000-by-2060-report</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>This is already having a very large impact on what were functioning welfare states in the Scandinavian countries.</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 1:23 PM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 12:33 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_2858556205542364755gmail-m_-2041673490126938993WordSection1"><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-top:6pt" id="gmail-m_2858556205542364755gmail-m_-2041673490126938993gmail-:17g"><div id="gmail-m_2858556205542364755gmail-m_-2041673490126938993gmail-:17h"><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>If any society anywhere creates an adequate safety net such that falling into it is not terrifying, the masses will come running from all corners of the globe to leap into it. </i></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">That argument had a lot more power a few decades ago than it does now. I always knew someday radical libertarianism would have to be modified when it comes to economic issues but figured it was too far in the future to be relevant in a discussion of current events, but AI is advancing faster than I thought it would and the day has come. In the next 5 years millions of jobs will permanently go extinct and it's not realistic to retrain all truck drivers to become computer programmers, and even if you could it's only a matter of time before that job goes extinct too. And it's not just truck drivers, one day you and I and everyone else is going to need that safety net. The times are changing and we need to change with the times.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_2858556205542364755gmail-m_-2041673490126938993WordSection1"><div style="margin-top:6pt" id="gmail-m_2858556205542364755gmail-m_-2041673490126938993gmail-:17g"><div id="gmail-m_2858556205542364755gmail-m_-2041673490126938993gmail-:17h"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></div></div>
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