khafra comments on A potentially great improvement to minimum wage laws to handle both economic efficiency as well as poverty concerns - Less Wrong

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Comment author: khafra 26 July 2011 12:28:44PM *  -2 points [-]

Umeshism: If nobody is willing to risk death to leave your country, you're trying too hard to please everybody.

Alternate interpretation: People leave capitalist, socialist, and anarchist countries regularly. Do all of them have a marginal benefit for leaving below an [x]% risk of death?

Comment author: SilasBarta 27 July 2011 05:21:35PM 4 points [-]

Note that I was using the net exodus rate as a metric. For countries that are about equally good, you will find people leaving one for the other, but they won't be strongly biased in favor of leaving any particular one of them.

OTOH, if one of them has a huge net emigration rate, and everyone tells you they left, "because we could"...