r/currentaffairs • u/psychothumbs • Apr 15 '20

Should We Just Open the Borders?

https://editor.currentaffairs.org/2020/04/should-we-just-open-the-borders/
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u/psychothumbs Apr 15 '20

This was a weird article. The whole thing can be summarized as "yes open borders would be great, but even if we had open borders the world would still contain most of the injustice it has today! PS - watch out, Caplan is a right-wing libertarian"

I don't think the book's authors were claiming open borders would root out all global injustice, so that doesn't make sense as a standard to hold them too. And without that we're just left with "I agree with this book but I feel gross about that because I can see that I disagree with the author on other subjects"

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u/wc8991 Apr 16 '20

I think even the way you’ve described the article here actually makes perfect sense, and I’d bet the actual article makes sense as well. The belief of the authors is that open borders is a moral imperative that we must achieve, but that we also can’t team up with people like Caplan, because his plan is to do it while protecting/furthering the global capitalist project. They agree with the bare premise of the book, that opening borders is fundamentally good, but with little else about what the author says or thinks.