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"You can import labor, but you will also be importing a lot of other things besides the labor itself, most of which you want less of—not more. So even if some indirect benefits do exist, all the indirect costs easily outweigh them." aporiamagazine.com/p/externalitie…

If only someone were to write a 50K-word academic monograph specifically dedicated to countering the widely held notion that we have less control/responsibility over our life outcomes when those outcomes are substantially heritable...Oh wait! I just did! doi.org/10.1017/thg.20…

"You can import labor, but you will also be importing a lot of other things besides the labor itself, most of which you want less of—not more." aporiamagazine.com/p/externalitie…

"Unlike the brash “I’m the best!” narcissism of figures like Trump, communal narcissists wear compassion like a crown, seeking applause through affirmations of selflessness." aporiamagazine.com/p/communal-nar…

"Humans are not equal. They never have been. They never will be. And more than that: they should not be. Egalitarianism is not merely false. It is unjust." aporiamagazine.com/p/against-equa…

Xenophobia, understood as a desire to preserve the demographics of one's own tribe, is perfectly healthy and reasonable. Conservatives need to stop accepting the left's strategy of pathologizing normal human preferences.

Feckless descendents berate their courageous ancestors for audacity that they can no longer fathom.

"The evidence shows that introducing mass democracy into poor and fragile countries does not create prosperity. In fact, it often prevents it." aporiamagazine.com/p/mass-democra…

The notion that a society can replace its own dominant ethnic group while preserving its culture is as foolish as anything found in communism. Different peoples create different cultures because they have different traits. Change the people, you change the culture.

"Countries that achieve economic development do not begin with mass democracy. They end with it." aporiamagazine.com/p/mass-democra…

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Aporia links here are always extremely throttled. If you haven't heard about it, I strongly recommend both the magazine and the podcast. It's my current favorite podcast.

If assimilation were some magical solution to group differences, disparities between blacks and whites would have disappeared long ago. Peoples create different societies because they have different traits. No amount of schooling or enculturation will change that.

"Diversity is a lie. And ultimately it promotes the only widespread form of racism in the West: Anti-white racism." aporiamagazine.com/p/diversity-is…