We recently lived through one of the worst government overreaches in recent history: COVID lockdowns. Children were forbidden to play with their friends. Employees were forbidden to work. Families were forbidden to gather. But here is an interesting philosophical question: Whose rights were actually violated during lockdowns? Do I have an absolute right to go to a restaurant? Do I have a right to a job?
This was a very convincing case for laissez-faire immigration policy. Well written and good arguments against the closed border sympathizers in our camp. I have always been on the fence and teetering either direction on the immigration issue because i think both sides have good concerns...but you summed it up pretty well. I have always been pro immigration but always erred on the side of caution because of the potential negative economic impact it could have if we have mass immigration.
Hi Curt, I appreciate the time and effort that went into this article. I don't have the time to address everything here. Business generally loves open borders. They can exploit desperate labor and pass on the costs to the public. In 2020 when Trump killed the Supply Chain with Covid Lockdowns and spent trillions to battle Covid (a whole other story) and forestall a little bit of relatively healthy deflation, I knew that we would have inflation because of it. Yet, convincing anyone of how inflation works is difficult. Even with a mere 2 year difference between cause and effect, few people understand how we arrived at our current inflation situation. Most people will happily go to the voting booth to vote Democrat or Republican not realizing both Trump and Biden increased inflation. Immigration is a vastly more complex concept than inflation with vastly greater time frames between cause and effect. It will be hard to explain some of the consequences of immigration until after it has happened in a severe way. Even then it will difficult for many to grasp, just as inflation is not understood by most people now. As the world population grows and we become more unsustainable in terms of resources and stability, the true costs of short term gains of Business Owners through immigration will be felt as long term costs of the public. Libertarian Privatization, as I have seen it explained, would not make this problem go away. Maybe by the time we add a couple more billion people to the planet and have really started feeling the effects of immigration then my second book will be completed and I can try to explain what just happened LOL...
Again you fail to see it. Let’s hypothesize about a land owner that owns the entire border between two nations. Your open borders ideas mandate he allow people across his property without his franchise.
Thank you for the article. I wish more people understood this concept.
This was a very convincing case for laissez-faire immigration policy. Well written and good arguments against the closed border sympathizers in our camp. I have always been on the fence and teetering either direction on the immigration issue because i think both sides have good concerns...but you summed it up pretty well. I have always been pro immigration but always erred on the side of caution because of the potential negative economic impact it could have if we have mass immigration.
Very interesting read. I disagree with some of your points but you've got a new subscriber. Looking forward to reading more of your work.
Hi Curt, I appreciate the time and effort that went into this article. I don't have the time to address everything here. Business generally loves open borders. They can exploit desperate labor and pass on the costs to the public. In 2020 when Trump killed the Supply Chain with Covid Lockdowns and spent trillions to battle Covid (a whole other story) and forestall a little bit of relatively healthy deflation, I knew that we would have inflation because of it. Yet, convincing anyone of how inflation works is difficult. Even with a mere 2 year difference between cause and effect, few people understand how we arrived at our current inflation situation. Most people will happily go to the voting booth to vote Democrat or Republican not realizing both Trump and Biden increased inflation. Immigration is a vastly more complex concept than inflation with vastly greater time frames between cause and effect. It will be hard to explain some of the consequences of immigration until after it has happened in a severe way. Even then it will difficult for many to grasp, just as inflation is not understood by most people now. As the world population grows and we become more unsustainable in terms of resources and stability, the true costs of short term gains of Business Owners through immigration will be felt as long term costs of the public. Libertarian Privatization, as I have seen it explained, would not make this problem go away. Maybe by the time we add a couple more billion people to the planet and have really started feeling the effects of immigration then my second book will be completed and I can try to explain what just happened LOL...
Again you fail to see it. Let’s hypothesize about a land owner that owns the entire border between two nations. Your open borders ideas mandate he allow people across his property without his franchise.