2023-01-24
1 小时 14 分钟Go ahead and run your experiments in Iceland.
Let's run that for 50 years and see what happens.
It's weird how everybody's obsessed with it, running the experiment in America, right?
They'll balance the long run budget on the kind of the backs of the poor and the middle class.
Anything that lowers the innovation in the world's most innovative countries has negative cost for the entire planet in the long run.
But that's something you'd only see over the course of 20, 30, 50 years.
And libertarians and open border advocates are very rarely interested in that kind of time frame.
But it's worth thinking through why it is that the...
It's the acceptable so-called monarchies aren't really monarchies, right?
They're really oligarchies.
We should presume that the average skill level of voters,
the average traits that we're bringing from our ancestors are having an effect on our current productivity
for going to real.
Okay, today I have the pleasure of speaking with Garrett Jones,
who is an economist at George Mason University.
He's most recently the author of The Cultural Transplant.
How migrants make the economies they move to a lot like the ones they left.
But he's also the author of 10% Less Democracy and Hive Mind.
We'll get into all three of those books.
Garrett, welcome to the podcast.