Pareto Optimal or Zero Sum Aspects To Diversity And Globalism
Over at Quora , one poster tries to make sense of why ordinary people oppose immigration, and discovers something about countries: One aspect is that a policy may be potentially Pareto optimal - meaning that you cannot make anyone better off without making someone else worse off presuming that the winners were to compensate the losers - but that's of slim comfort to you, your family, town, county, or state if you lose and the winners don't actually compensate you as the welfare economics standard suggests would be possible. Well, wait a second... that sounds like zero-sum conditions, where no one can win without someone else losing. How can we explain this? Simply put, borders exist for a reason: for anyone in a society to have anyone else comes in means a loss of what they had before, which was an ethnically-consistent society in which their group had self-determination. Each person arriving gradually chips away at their culture, values, hierarchy, and future. The w...