If we can move goods freely around the world with common international standards, then they'll be made by the cheapest competent manufacturers.
If we can move people freely around the world, then jobs will be done by the cheapest competent people.
And the cheapest competent people and manufacturers are usually the ones in the poorest regions, who then get richer by taking our
But if we end freedom of movement for people and products, then we have to pay an acceptable rate to our local providers, or pay a premium for the movement of people and products over the borders.
And if we try to keep labour and stuff as cheap as it became under a system of free movement, but without the free movement, we run into problems.
(, Wed 29 Sep 2021, 14:53, Reply)
(, Wed 29 Sep 2021, 15:37, Reply)
Obviously we should be post-scarcity by now, in happy nonheirarchical communes and earthship houses.
(, Wed 29 Sep 2021, 17:38, Reply)