[extropy-chat] Economic consensus on immigration

[Keith Henson]

At 06:47 PM 5/17/2006 -0700, spike wrote:

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>One aspect of libertarianism that I always choked on was the notion of open
>borders.  To this day I still can't quite see how such a policy could ever
>work.

Simple.

All you need to do is make all locations equally attractive.

The main reason people come to the US is that it is more attractive than 
where they are.

Most of the reason is that there are too many people for the resources of 
the region.

I am working on a novel set in a world where the AIs (and/or uploaded 
humans) have engineered removing 99 plus percent of the population from the 
world.

Posted the explanatory chapter (in 4 parts) to the sl4 list where it 
elicited no on list comment whatsoever.

Immigration from Mexico will stop when is it equally miserable on both 
sides of the border.

Keith Henson