One of the most eloquent explanations of immigration you’ll ever hear.
Milton Friedman had an extraordinary ability to cut through the political bullshit and explain complicated issues with simple economic logic.
Still relevant today. 🎯
@haremfinacer@JabotinskyDream So strange why the whole middle east is hell bent on bringing their pathetic conflicts to the west. I whole heartedly agree. Send all middle easterners to the middle East.
@EvaSelsing Remigration hentyder til en befolkningsgruppe og er mere finit. Hjemsendelser hentyder til enkeltpersoner og bærer præg af at være en straf.
@hr_noergaard@PernilleVermund Godt at du skriver vermund med lille for hun er da godt nok et dræn. Hun har gjort stor skade mod højrefløjen. Burde glemmes.
@williameijer Yes! This is very accurate. As a rightist it is incredibly costly to do anything non-aligned with leftist ideals in a public organisation. I speak from experience.
10 reasons why leftists inevitably capture democratic institutions:
1. Humans want status.
2. Politics is primarily about self-interested attempts to redistribute status.
3. Status is roughly zero-sum and power-law distributed. A minority of people has most of the status. A majority is low-status.
4. The low-status majority wants status in exchange for votes. Leftists elites give economic (money) and social (DEI) status in exchange for power.
5. Leftists have more motivation to control institutions because their status depends on it. Meanwhile, the rightist business owner wants to be left alone.
6. A feedback loop forms. What’s left-coded is promoted; what’s right-coded is discouraged. Leftists are further encouraged to join or stay, and rightists are further discouraged from joining or staying (think proto-religious land acknowledgements, diversity training, etc.).
7. Rightists in institutions get increasingly outcompeted.
8. Ways to correct the leftist capture of institutions become personally costly (intimidation, job loss, cancellation, arrest, etc.).
9. Ways to get ahead in life involve reinforcing the leftist capture of institutions (publicly agreeing with DEI, promoting blank-slate-compatible explanations for persistent differences in outcomes, etc.).
10. In the end, everyone lies all the time because they know what’s best for them. This is where we are.