Bryan Caplan has
teamed up with cartoonist Zach Weinersmith to produce a fantastic book called “Open
Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration”. I am a migrant myself, and am
a dual citizen of South Africa and the United Kingdom. I was 14 when Apartheid “within”
South Africa ended, and so have to agree with Caplan’s perspective that the
Four Freedoms of Labour, Goods, Services and Capital without the right to live
and work where we want is Global Apartheid. The attempt at introducing “Dompas”
(Dumb passports) to keep people in their homelands provided fuel for the fires
of brave freedom fighters like Gandhi and Mandela. With a chapter entitled “Trillion-Dollar
Bills on the Sidewalk”, the case isn’t purely altruistic. Caplan takes the
reasoning behind opponents’ arguments seriously and builds pragmatic solutions
to various concerns. Particularly interesting in a microambitious way, are the
Keyhole Solutions, which directly address issues. Nudging forward together.
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