/lit/ - Literature

>>17963666
>did you know that all of humanity could live in an area the size of rhode island, with the only downside being a population density equivalent to kowloon city?
>ergo, there is plenty of space in your country for immigrants

>>17963666
I agree that this book makes bad arguments, but what's the point of starting this thread? Do you think anyone here is going to vigorously disagree with you?

Low crime rates?
Efficient public services?
Why, I just want a variety of take out food restaurants!

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GO BACK TO YOUR FUCKING CONTAINMENT BOARD
THIS BOARD IS FOR LITERARY DISCUSSION

I’m still struggling to believe this book isn’t satire. I suppose it was written by a “Caplan” and illustrated by “Weinersmith”though so I shouldn’t be too surprised.

>>17963689
/lit/ has too many shitty threads right now so I'm going to make a good one

>>17963692
Lets read it together, froggy.

>This book is stupid!
>Yes, it is stupid
>I concur, and the person who wrote it is stupid and bad
>Yes, everyone who likes this bad book is stupid and bad
>Those people are all stupid and bad, not like us

Really stimulating.

>>17963765
you forgot to include the people like you going 'y r u even talking about this jeez'

>>17963717
This is true.

Caplan also argues for having more kids.

So he is consistent on that.

>>17963765
This unironically except without the midwit-tier implication at the end that disagreeing with bad ideas makes you as stupid as the people supporting the bad ideas.

>>17963770
This isn't the correct venue to discuss this work. Go start up a conversation about it somewhere where people are likely to defend it. This is just pathetic; it's like watching social justice people circlejerk about Nazis

>>17963785
I reject your authority to determine whether this is the proper venue tbqh

>>17963717

>Assuming retirees are the only ones who use social programs
>Openly admitting workers are only good as cattle

>>17963717
It's "like" a pyramid scheme. But so long as the pyramid keeps getting bigger and bigger we'll be ok!

Open borders causes racism and other forms of discrimination via wage stagnation which results in people being unhappy. Unhappy people act out.

>>17963795
Well then maybe you'll listen to the authority of the people who run this board.

>If you want to discuss politics, go to /pol/
It's in the fucking sticky.

>>17963717
we could just cut social security

>>17963839
We're not discussing politics. We're discussing literature.

>>17963839
>Well then maybe you'll listen to the authority of the people who run this board.
I mean no of course I won't. I don't get mad at them when they ban me, it's their job and all, but I am obviously not going to follow the rules

>>17963666
Who are these threads even supposed to be baiting? Nobody apart from a few trolls here will actually argue for open borders.

>>17963799
He is saying workers are taxed more as the ratio of retirees to workers rises.

>>17963666
Kek

>>17963717
thats a good point tho

Did migrants take your job? Good.

>>17963961
you pay for them too lel

>>17963973
I don't care as long as you cry about it

>>17963961
>>17963978
Here’s your (You)

@17963765
Did you read the thread retard?

>>17963666
Dunno how Caplan went form 2 of the best books of all time to this fucking graphic novel.
The Myth of the Rational Voter
The Case Against Education

>>17964028
All his books are anti-populist.

Except maybe his book on having more children, dunno, haven't read it yet.

>>17963978
It is very racist of you to mock POC who are losing their jobs because of mass immigration

>>17964048
This unironically. Mass immigration was planned to destroy the black working class before they got too revolutionary.

>>17964058
If only todays leftists were based instead of being soibois they would go around beating up illegal immgrants like Ceasar Chavez and his crew used to do

>>17963717
>“We asked for workers; we got people instead”

>>17964120
True.

>>17963938
He's saying we need tax paying immigrants to pay social security, but when those people get old, we'll need even more and so on. What he doesn't tell you and won't admit is that it's unsustainable in the long run.

>>17963666
>Who needs it? Just so long as my credit cards work!
Credit cards no longer working would be kind of a big problem though

>>17964120
>go around beating up illegal immgrants like Ceasar Chavez and his crew used to do
They were Clintonite Democrats

Wow, what a based left that we've lost. RIP

>>17963814
I hate animalistic coomer retards. The kind that pumps out 4-5 children like it’s nobody’s business, then wonder why the world is going to shit. This kind of shortsightedness is why we are where we are and why we are going where we are going.

>>17963717
Caplan is against social programs like Medicare so that's a non-argument

>>17964777
Based retard

>>17963666
OPEN BORDERS FOR ISRAEL

>>17963952
It blatantly presents the unsustainability of the system it supposedly supports

>>17964289
Like a Ponzi scheme.