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In reply to the discussion: Should capitalists that move their jobs overseas lose their US citizenship? [View all]frostfern
(67 posts)The problem they refuse to acknowledge is that in their ideal "free market" model there must be completely free and open competition between all sellers, INCLUDING THOSE WHO SELL THEIR LABOR. Think of it this way: Would Chinese or Indian workers accept lower pay for the exact same work as their American counterparts if they could freely immigrate anywhere in the world? Fuck no! The restriction on the mobility of labor imposed by sovereign nations is a "market inefficiency" ( to use the economic jargon of neoclassical "free market" ideology). Free trade cannot be "pereto optimal" unless we also allow 100% free immigration and dissolve national sovereignty completely.
It's so sad that even progressive politicians have bought into the "free trade is good for everyone" nonsense because they believed all the so-called "economic experts". I just cannot believe the idiocy of the world we live in.