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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (69435)	12/12/2010 12:52:05 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 220194

Actually, multiculturalism and democracy are just fine if done right. <Yes ... why multiculturalism and democracy spell doom... > Doing it right means Tradable Citizenships. Then anyone can live anywhere they can afford and incentives to blow things up and vote for stupid ideas would go down a long way. In regular democracy, it makes sense to vote to take opm for oneself because privatizing public assets makes a lot of sense in the tragedy of the commons. Having slaves is also a traditional approach to life and democracy is modern slavery with the producers being the slaves and the bludgers the slave drivers. Democracy has reached the end of the line on that now, as the producers can no longer keep the bludgers in the manner to which they have become accustomed, even if the bludgers still have the voting power - they can't force economic activity. The USSR and other totalitarians tried it. It doesn't work very well. Each person has their own culture and their individual cultures change as the go from 0 to 100. So all countries are multicultural with constant cultural shifts irrespective of whether foreigners arrive. But if swarms of a particular variety of foreigner are brought in, they do change the culture rapidly. When the English arrived en masse in New Zealand, they didn't turn into Maoris. They built close approximations of English life and customs. As hordes of Chinese arrive, they don't turn New Zealanders, they turn it into where they came from. That has some good attributes but plenty of bad ones too. For 40 years, NZ bosses have had the stupid idea that more people is better, as though humans are fungible units of economic value for them to play with. If merely having more people is such a good idea, Bangladesh would be great and Luxembourg and Switzerland struggling and unpleasant. Compare Kenya and Iceland, even with the financial collapse. NZ has plenty of people already, though selling 10,000 citizenships a year would be a good idea. $20 billion extra cash each year would enable some excellent infrastructure to be built. Within 10 years, NZ would be the best place on the planet, the richest and most sought after. Of course, if others copied, the profits would go down because the value of those places would soar too. Supply and demand determines prices. Choosing between Greece, Hawaii, Australia would be tough. But profits aside, having the right incentives would make all such places vastly better irrespective of their relative value to foreigners. Look at the burgeoning value of Hong Kong and you don't even get to own the citizenship. You just pay to live there. Imagine if a country that is nice to live in actually did things right, what they'd be worth. Mqurice