The relevant metaphor here is “killing the goose that lays the golden eggs”. A country with pro-prosperity policies is a goose. Filling it with people who haven’t assimilated the memes of the people who pass such policies will arguably lead to the end of this wealth production so sought after by immigrants.
Arbitrarge doesn’t kill metaphorical geese like that: it simply allows people to get existing gold eggs more efficiently. It might destroy one particular seller’s source of profit, but does not destroy wealth-production ability that an immigrant-based memetic overload would.
It’s vary naive to suppose that prosperity is only down to know-how, and also not things like natural resource wealth, history (eg using colonisation to grab resources from other countries), etc.
Aribtrage has a number of effects including evening out costs and prices. There are
hefty “trade barriers” against movements of workers almost everywhere that leave
wide disparitiees in wages un arbitraged out. We regard this as normal, although it
is the opposite of the situation regarded as desirable regarding the free movement of goods.
The relevant metaphor here is “killing the goose that lays the golden eggs”. A country with pro-prosperity policies is a goose. Filling it with people who haven’t assimilated the memes of the people who pass such policies will arguably lead to the end of this wealth production so sought after by immigrants.
Arbitrarge doesn’t kill metaphorical geese like that: it simply allows people to get existing gold eggs more efficiently. It might destroy one particular seller’s source of profit, but does not destroy wealth-production ability that an immigrant-based memetic overload would.
It’s vary naive to suppose that prosperity is only down to know-how, and also not things like natural resource wealth, history (eg using colonisation to grab resources from other countries), etc.
Aribtrage has a number of effects including evening out costs and prices. There are hefty “trade barriers” against movements of workers almost everywhere that leave wide disparitiees in wages un arbitraged out. We regard this as normal, although it is the opposite of the situation regarded as desirable regarding the free movement of goods.