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Comment author: Azathoth123 18 September 2014 12:24:32AM 6 points [-]

The most prominent people in any given group are more likely to be rich, and richer people more often live in gated communities.

Rich people are more likely to advocate open boarders.

As for prominent people: Mark Zuckerberg bought the four houses surrounding his own "because he wanted more privacy". Bryan Caplan prides himself on the bubble he's constructed around himself.

Comment author: gjm 18 September 2014 01:15:57AM 1 point [-]

Rich people are more likely to advocate open borders.

Again, I'd be interested in the statistics. (That isn't a coded way of saying I think you're wrong, by the way. But I'd be interested to know how big the differences are, whether it depends on what you mean by "rich", etc.)

Mark Zuckerberg [...] Bryan Caplan

I'm not sure why this is relevant. I'm guessing that both of those people advocate open borders, but surely the absolute most any observation of this form could show is that there are at least two people in the world who advocate open borders for bad reasons, or advocate open borders but are terrible people, or something. How can that possibly matter?