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Revealed preference is that people move to countries with free speech
by ryan93 3y ago
Revealed preference is that people move to countries with free speech
- dukeyukey 3y agoPeople move to places with economic opportunity. That _tends_ to be places with free speech, but look at how many people move to places like Saudi Arabia or the UAE.
- ryan93 3y agoI looked. Its an absurdly small fraction of what europe and america have gotten historically.
- csb6 3y agoThe total number of job opportunities in two countries over the span of the ~50 years they have been major oil producers is necessarily less than the number of opportunities available in an entire continent + one of the largest nations in the world over a period of centuries. Almost 90% of the UAE’s population consists of migrant workers. The U.S. can’t get anywhere near that. Since people flock to countries with free speech, then the UAE must have extremely free speech laws. QED. Of course this is as wrong as your original claim because seeing where people migrate is not a reliable indicator of whether their destination has “free speech” or not.
- dukeyukey 3y agoAround 80-90% of the UAE's population is a migrant worker, far _far_ above anywhere in the Americas or Europe.