PaulaToThePeople 😷I think the biggest coup that #capitalism ever scored, was to make people believe that humans who made it out of an active war zone, crossed a desert and rowed a shitty rubber raft over an ocean are dangerously lazy freeloaders, while people who inherit billions from exploitative ancestors and never pay any taxes deserve praise and then called that an "achievement oriented society".
Jairaj Devadiga@PaulaToThePeople It's the socialists who oppose free migration and open borders. The most popular book about open borders is by Bryan Caplan, who is a free market economist (and illustrated by Zach Weinersmith).
Darwin Woodka@jairajdevadiga @PaulaToThePeople
@ZachWeinersmith might disagree with that
@darwinwoodka @PaulaToThePeople @ZachWeinersmith He illustrated the book. I doubt he would do so if he disagreed with its contents.
Zach Weinersmith@jairajdevadiga @darwinwoodka @PaulaToThePeople In my experience among groups of open movement advocates, the majority are:
1) Free market libertarians who see borders as inefficient
2) Econ geeks with a similar view, but less rooted in a ra-ra-freedom mentality
3) Socialists who oppose nation states blocking the free movement of people.
We're about 3% of the population, so it's not people with typical politics.
@ZachWeinersmith @darwinwoodka @PaulaToThePeople I belong mostly to the second group, but I have seen socialists opposing immigration using the same "they took our jobs" argument as the far right.
They also frequently complain about outsourcing to countries like India, which is functionally equivalent to immigration.
@jairajdevadiga @darwinwoodka @PaulaToThePeople Yes, agreed. I dunno enough about the variations in socialism to know why some people are internationalist in this sense and some aren't. My sense is some are more oriented around local institutions, e.g. the local unions, and some are more oriented around abstractions, e.g. universal brotherhood.