Academic Corruption, Psychedelics, & Open Borders
Livestream roundup | May 31, 2024
This week in my Conversations with Peter Boghossian series I had the pleasure of speaking with Doug Pinecreek and Bryan Caplan. I hope you enjoy the conversations!
Academic Corruption, Psychedelics, & More
Doug Pinecreek and Peter Boghossian do a call-in show and discuss various topics like atheism, critical theory, education, and psychedelics.
An Economist Argues For Open Borders
Economist Bryan Caplan joins Peter Boghossian to discuss Caplan's latest book "Open Borders”. They delve into the complexities of immigration's impact on origin and destination countries, addressing environmental concerns, fiscal contributions, the scalability of immigration policies, and more.
I have a few questions about an open borders policy and their impact on the host country…
1. What would be the impact to housing with regard to the cost of renting and/or buying a home? We already have a shortage of housing which is causing housing prices to explode.
2. What would be the impact to wages, not just for unskilled/low skilled workers but in the professional sector? Would wages decline for the professional class as well as unskilled workers? Would the supply of jobs decrease? And if everyone automatically becomes citizens, how will that affect the wages of under the table workers (therefore increasing prices) considering the number of employers/private citizens who pay cash to undocumented workers?
3. What would be the impact to the cost and access to healthcare? Would we see a decrease in access and increase in prices?
4. What would be the impact to goods and services? Would the increase in demand cause prices to increase?