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Comment 1- Any growing community needs diversity to function but it's not cultural diversity, it's genetic diversity that brings cohesion.
Answer 1- I have an interest in Ayn Rand she makes some interesting points. She seems to represent the "small L liberal"/ "free market" view. Business has a place in the community but can be a problem when it dominates. I feel that some "small L liberals" and business interests pretend to be conservative- perhaps compared to global companies they are. This is "a source" of the rift in the Liberal Party in Australia- liberals pretence for conservatism on the right. It makes the whole party irrational in the public eyes.
Of course being of the conservative view that cultural diversity is divisive.
I don't believe we should have "a growing community" from an economic or population perspective. I don't want to get into an argument about the validity of environmental impact but suffice to say and despite the criticism- Malthusianism has value- we can't have continual growth in my view.
I can't see genetic diversity as being anything but divisive- yes you can safely have trace amounts of different genetics in the community- but genetic diversity leads inevitably to cultural diversity.
Small L liberals are always going to want to be able to use immigration to throttle wages because the workers seize political power. Ironically a more managed economy (more conservative less liberal) would also provide more certainty as to wage costs for businesses (though I can understand that Free Traders would see that as a loss of power).
Everyone in the community needs to benefit from the community structure in order to participate (Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz also said this). Everyone wants more power those with power have a greater ability to gather more- this creates instability- it creates opportunities for economic raiders and other types of raiders- raiders should probably be discouraged in favour of stability within the community.