The Advanced Nations of the World vs. The Third World Nations?--Seminar-4

On November 4, 2019, the Cato Institute in its DC headquarters held a panel discussion review of the book recently released, Open Borders.  Its co-authors, Professor Bryan Caplan of George Mason University and comic illustrator Zach Weinersmith began by pointing out salient features of the opus that deals with the goods and bads of immigration, particularly as it pertains to a recent backlash of the practice, as led by President Trump.  After that, Tim Kane of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University offered his critique of the work; and then came questions from the audience.

Open Borders is a Libertarian defense of immigration as a means, a tool with social and economic beneficial outcomes, more invaluable than of its deleterious side-effects, the panelists argued.
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I want to to further the discussion by noting how immigration has been used since the conclusion of WWII by world leaders to fend off a confrontation between the Advanced Nations on the planet and the Third World Nations, particularly of the East and Orient.  The latter block of nations were making their case back then that their countries have been excluded from participating in the rich materialism that became a hallmark of rebuilding Europe and making the United States the most prosperous and wealthy nation around the world.  It seemed as if Africa and the Orient were being hung out to dry, though the West was sapping their natural resources to construct its own world of a most glamorous existence as a habitat.

In response, business leadership around the globe, I believe, deployed three major trends to make the Third World countries sharing partners in the new peaceful prosperity the West has come to enjoy.  One, immigration, was encouraged of particularly workers with technological training from Third World countries, including India, into the States.  Computer tech graduates from universities abroad and health care providers have come in droves even up to this day.  The second method to integrate the Third World into partnership with the Advanced nations has been through world trade organizations, especially the WTO.  These organizations attempt to introduce and enforce business practices of the Advanced Nations to permit the sharing of techniques for sound management and investment in corporation enterprises and to make their countries' governments stable and more responsive to their individual country's citizenry.  Not to be forgotten in this list of world techniques used to bring about country parody is the flattening of  wages in Advanced nations of the middle class and poverty workers by producing goods made in the US or other Advanced Countries in part also made abroad in the countries of the Third World.  Thus, China has done very well and is fast approaching meeting the standards of the West to become itself an Advanced Nation among all nations.

But as Professor Tim Kane noted, there has been and continues to be a backlash.  Not knowing how serious to take the threats from the Third World to do some kind of violence as a "last straw" effort to change the attitudes of the Western leadership, who seemingly had not cared for so long that Third World nations were still living in abject poverty, the warnings from those leaders of the poor countries were ignored.  Specifically, the entire working class of  the Advanced Nations object to their wages lying in stagnation.  It is true that the goods they buy from Amazon or at Wal-Mart are cheaper because they're made at least in some part (or, for many goods from China in the whole) in Third World Countries where labor is cheap, very cheap--partly, it is also true, because child labor is used to make the end product sold here.

Importantly, the techniques now being in place to bring the Third World Nations into the community of  the Advanced Nations enjoying the benefits of our New Age after WWII are working well.

And, the Panel Discussion of this profound work on the merits of immigration highlights but one of three major trends that world leaders have agreed upon, evidently, to establish international parody among our united nations for the sake of peace and harmony.