http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/26/tyler-vs-tyrone-on-immigration/ The Sweet Release of Reason Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:11:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/26/tyler-vs-tyrone-on-immigration/comment-page-1/#comment-235197 Mike Linksvayer » Apartheid culture Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:12:36 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/26/tyler-vs-tyrone-on-immigration/#comment-235197 [...] Will Wilkinson nicely sums up one response to those who argue that out of jurisdiction movers will destroy the neighborhoodculture: [O]pponents of liberal migration and labor policies too often confuse dynamic cultural change for cultural erosion. I more afraid that fat, tenured Americans will become too risk averse and insurance-minded than that hungry, entrepreneurial new entrants will undermine the very institutions they came to benefit from. Why not think that, on the one hand, our institutions transform newcomers culturally more than they transform our institutions, while, on the other hand, newcomers keep our institutions vital and growth-minded, rather than moribund and insurance-mided? [...] [...] Will Wilkinson nicely sums up one response to those who argue that out of jurisdiction movers will destroy the neighborhoodculture: [O]pponents of liberal migration and labor policies too often confuse dynamic cultural change for cultural erosion. I more afraid that fat, tenured Americans will become too risk averse and insurance-minded than that hungry, entrepreneurial new entrants will undermine the very institutions they came to benefit from. Why not think that, on the one hand, our institutions transform newcomers culturally more than they transform our institutions, while, on the other hand, newcomers keep our institutions vital and growth-minded, rather than moribund and insurance-mided? [...]

]]> http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/26/tyler-vs-tyrone-on-immigration/comment-page-1/#comment-234713 Will Wilkinson Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:35:37 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/26/tyler-vs-tyrone-on-immigration/#comment-234713 Ah, I get it now. Good joke! Ah, I get it now. Good joke!

]]> http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/26/tyler-vs-tyrone-on-immigration/comment-page-1/#comment-234707 Tyler Cowen Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:30:58 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/26/tyler-vs-tyrone-on-immigration/#comment-234707 Sometimes Tyler is simply too obscure. I meant the line about cultural foundations to be poking fun at others, namely that a nation can be too stupid to embrace certain bright ideas...and that, sadly, that is part of democracy too. Sometimes Tyler is simply too obscure. I meant the line about cultural foundations to be poking fun at others, namely that a nation can be too stupid to embrace certain bright ideas…and that, sadly, that is part of democracy too.

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