Feb 16, 2016
A top mathematician's abandoned his post at Auckland Uni because Immigration New Zealand didn't like the costs his autistic son might someday impose on the State...
But the real underlying problem is that safety nets build moats and walls. Maybe there could have been a sane workaround for this guy. But what about the desperately poor person abroad who could be just a little bit poor here, working on the minimum wage? He'd be massively better off by moving. But there's risk of needing welfare, there'd be transfers through WFF, and nobody likes having poorer people in visible places. So they're on the other side of the moat and wall, to avoid potential burdening of the net.
- Eric Crampton
