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NancyLebovitz comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, July 2014, chapter 102 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 27 July 2014 10:01:33AM 1 point [-]

it's about reducing the utility of everyone in the country

What? If an employer is willing to hire the immigrant, this means that his labour is more valuable to her than her money, and if a grocer is willing to sell him food, this means that his money is more valuable to her than her food, so it'd seem like the immigrant is providing positive net value to the original population of the country, isn't him?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 27 July 2014 10:16:50AM 2 points [-]

If immigrants generally reduce utility for everyone in the country, would the same apply for the children of citizens?

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 27 July 2014 02:26:08PM 2 points [-]

There is a middle ground between 'all immigration is generally bad' and 'there should be no boarder controls whatsoever'.

Comment author: bramflakes 27 July 2014 11:55:17AM 1 point [-]

People intrinsically care about their children.