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Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

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The Real Reason Why Immigration Is Great

When people move from a poor country to a rich country, the combined GDP of the sending and receiving countries goes up by a lot. So over five years, it's really extreme. I'm just going to be honest and say my confidence level goes down when it's that extreme. We've got much better man. We have much better management. There's international measures, men's real quality. US is basically at the top. Pakistan would be really low. But if everybody from Bangladesh came, there's a lot of people, they have different set of norms and they're at an equilibrium that's rational for where they are.

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