Gregory Clark: belief

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…The more the native Danes are below replacement fertility, the more urgent it is that you lower taxes and attract the best migrants, I would think. You should just be like a full-scale classical liberal, low-tax regime. Yes, you need a safety net, but not too much because that will attract the wrong immigrants. People — they come to America, they know they’ve got to make it on their own. That attracts, on average, the right immigrants. Yes, but you can see every day in Denmark the benefits of having . . . Unskilled workers earn much higher wages than they would in the United States. People can live at a decent living standard. I’m living in California part of the year, and it’s just shocking the number of homeless people there are everywhere. Within a mile of my house, there are people living homeless in California, and it just doesn’t exist, this, in Denmark. I understand perfectly the Danes’ desire to preserve this. The other problem the Danes have is, there’s only five-and-a-half million of them. They cherish their culture, their history, and stuff like that. One of the things they would fear about immigration is that already, if you walk in the streets of Copenhagen, the majority of people are speaking English to each other. The other thing, I think, that would limit immigration to Denmark is that people really do have this cultural identity. One of the things that they wanted to insist was that immigrants actually have to assimilate. It’s actually — I’m all for that.…

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