Why Caplan Doesn't Care About How Many Illegal Immigrants Enter the Country

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He explains it:
Indeed, I've wanted to live in a Bubble for as long as I can remember. Since childhood, I've struggled to psychologically and socially wall myself off from "my" society. At 40, I can fairly say, "Mission accomplished."

Why put so much distance between myself and the outside world? Because despite my legendary optimism, I find my society unacceptable. It is dreary, insipid, ugly, boring, wrong, and wicked.
 Of course, if the society you live in is "dreary, insipid, ugly, boring, wrong, and wicked," then what the hell? If it is taken over by Klingons, it can't get any worse, and it just might get better.

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  1. Cody9:24 PM

    Libertarianism offers the socially awkward an escape from the seemingly innumerable obligations "society" entails.

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  2. Bob Murphy9:50 PM

    If it is taken over by Klingons...

    That's the most racist thing you've ever written, Gene.

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  3. Otto Kerner7:08 PM

    I quite disagree with both of you. The society we live is dreary, insipid, ugly, and boring, and arguably wrong and wicked. It could most certainly be a lot worse, though.

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  4. BZ1:59 AM

    Probably explains why he has the insane beliefs that he does and why his book covers are so tone deaf/narcissistic. After all, if America as a nation goes down the gutter due to his beliefs being imposed upon Americans, then so what? It's society was "dreary, insipid, ugly, boring, wrong, and wicked" so it got what it deserved. Calling American society "dreary, insipid, ugly, boring, wrong, and wicked" is like calling a jumbo jet slow because it can't fly at mach 100. I agree it's not perfect and it could use lots of work but to ignore the relative difference between it and other societies is just plane ignorance.

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