New Imigration Reform

[Jester]

I think it's called the Tragedy of the Commons, or something close to that. And, if we care at all about that, then why is drawing a border at community to community unacceptable, yet drawing a border at nation to nation (But only for individuals), is?
If we can agree on that, then I'd be more then happy to concede my point. We can scratch out the "Funnelling money out of the community" and "Funnelling money out of the country" on both lists.

I don't believe in nations either, particularily. They are a stopgap level of organization before someone steps up to the plate and establishes a world government. I hope for a world where national borders would be no more important than city limits, an administrative unit only.

The tragedy of the commons is when a resource (like the eponymous commons, public land in England prior to the Enclosures Acts) is free and publicly available, but expendable through overuse. Thus, for each person, they can use it to their personal advantage, but if everyone uses it, it dries up and nobody can. It is the precise opposite of how a working free market economy operates.

-Jester