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Originally Posted by David Sklansky
Can you prove that? Or if not, can you give arguments that 75% of Ivy League graduates would agree were almost 100% persuasive?
"good for us" is implicitly value based. If you dislike seeing people with darker skin, hearing people speak Spanish, seeing signs in Spanish, having people enjoy different customs then you're not going to think that it's "good for us" and I expect somewhere around 25% of Ivy League graduates would fail to agree just based on such factors.
If your metric is "increase GDP per capita" then obviously not. Economics is so fuzzy that you probably couldn't get 75% of Ivy League graduates to agree after the fact whether some factor increased GDP or not, let alone agree on a prediction of the future.
It would be nearly impossible to convince anywhere near 75% of Ivy League grads that Central Americans wouldn't largely be takers who would leach off of them.
If you asked Ivy League grads in 1880 whether immigrants would be good for the country you couldn't have convinced 75% that they would be either.
Last edited by microbet; 03-28-2019 at 02:08 AM.