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This article does a good job of listing some of the common counter-arguments: "1) Mass migration would create mass poverty. A popular one is that everyone from
by ericd 6y ago
This article does a good job of listing some of the common counter-arguments:
"1) Mass migration would create mass poverty. A popular one is that everyone from South America and Africa would move to the U.S., which would, in turn, become a poor country.
2) No developed nation would be able to afford the new demand for their welfare programs. How would they keep a quality health system or unemployment protection program in place?
3) Terrorism.
4) The receiving countries would risk losing their national culture."
But then it doesn't seem to address any of them! It just points people to an Amazon link to buy a book on the subject. Frankly, seems like pretty thin content marketing for this website.
- hirundo 6y ago> But then it doesn't seem to address any of them! No, but the book he references does address them, with unusual clarity: https://www.amazon.com/Open-Borders-Science-Ethics-Immigration/dp/1250316960/ https://www.amazon.com/Open-Borders-Science-Ethics-Immigrati... At the bottom of the post the writer thanks one of the authors of that book for reviewing a draft.
- ericd 6y agoOK, then it’s a thin ad for that book?