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31 Dec 2016, 4:56 pm

I'm thinking this is important: If you have freedom of movement for goods, capital, services, but not labor, then the working class gets screwed. In order to ensure prosperity with free trade, we must also allow workers to move freely across borders, otherwise we get what we have now: a widening gap between rich and poor. If workers cannot vote with their feet then they are stuck in their current situation while businesses and wealthy people are free to move to the best places, putting workers at a disadvantage.

If we are not willing to institute freedom of movement for labor, then we must abolish free trade.


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31 Dec 2016, 6:40 pm

What if the country these people want to go to feels there is already unimployment in the land and don't think higher unemployment would be a good thing financially or socially?

What if in this country corporate bigwigs would like to see more unemployment and a larger labor pool because they know this forces down their cost of labor?