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> When looking beyond solely economic effects Like it or not, in the USA cash is king. It is what people optimize for. If you FIX a highly-rewarded measure fo
by throwawayjava 8y ago
> When looking beyond solely economic effects
Like it or not, in the USA cash is king. It is what people optimize for.
If you FIX a highly-rewarded measure for a nontrivial time period, the "take best comers" approach kicks ass. As long as your fix apriori and them measure. That's what we see here. GDP was defined before current immigration policy was set, after all.
If we have faults, they are in our system for doling out rewards. Not in the color/creed/religion of the people we let compete for those rewards.
If you want better social cohesion, design social systems to REWARD that cohesion. Then, communities will offer what you seek. To your great surprise, I suspect, those communities will be highly diverse.
Otherwise, you end up with sub-populations that severely under-perform on actually measured metrics and go out to search for bullshit alternative (under/arbitrarily)measured metrics by which they win. Again, that's what we see in your comment.