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This was just beautiful. I'm stuck in Trinidad where severe corruption, a bloated public service and plenty bureaucracy are preventing me from being as productive as I can be and want to be. There are people abroad who want to hire me and for whom I want to work, but we keep bumping into immigration bureaucracy that is stopping my migration. A temporary, but unsustainable (in my view) virtual solution has been implemented for now. It's very frustrating.

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This is extremely convincing!

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Thank you.

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Richard Lynn's 'IQ and the Wealth of Nations' and Garett Jones' 'The Culture Transplant' are persuasive to me. The societal benefits of higher IQ appear to surpass individual benefits, suggesting that widespread low IQ immigration could generate significant negative externalities. There may be a tipping point in immigration, where an excessive influx of low IQ individuals (lowering the national average below a threshold) threatens the maintenance of 'good' economic institutions, potentially transforming host nations into mirrors of the third world.

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