
Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas
Dwarkesh Podcast
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Immigration as Interference?
- Bryan Caplan disputes the idea of immigration as market interference, arguing against the framework suggesting importing labor disrupts the market.
- He suggests it’s a semantic argument where the status quo is regulation, and non-enforcement is interference.
- Caplan uses ordinary usage examples to highlight how unconventional this interpretation is.
- He challenges the concept of countries as collective property, questioning how such a "club" is formed without unanimous consent.
- He says most other organizations require agreement to join, unlike countries.
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