Libertarianism fails to acknowledge that hunger is a gun to your head.
And who would be holding that gun?
Whoever offers starvation wages knowing there is nothing better out there, like we tried your thing it was called the 19th century, it sucked
Yeah and we tried yours in the 20th. don’t you remember holodomor? Of course you don’t.
It would be fine as long as the individual is taught self reliance and WE SHUT THE FUCKING BORDERS BECAUSE FOREIGNERS WILL WORK FOR NOTHING
Yeah allowing capital to move around freely and limiting the mobility of the labor force… I can’t see how that would depress wages and destroy the world economy. /sarcasm.
Dude, dude, dude, what about ALL THE LABOR ACTIONS BY IMMIGRANTS? Also you know why undocumented immigrants end up being cheap labor because they don’t have the protection of labor laws.
Cesar Chavez?
The Bread and Roses Strike? http://www.amazon.com/Bread-Roses-Migrants-Struggle-American/dp/0143037358
http://www.iww.org/culture/articles/tsunami/tsunami4.shtml
Like Italian, Irish, Jewish and Polish immigrants were some of the major groups involved in early labor agitation for higher wages.
Chinese immigrants struck even though mainstream labor unions wouldn’t allow them in.
Work for nothing my ass.
I’m married to an immigrant, it took us a year (after we were married) to get him over here, a year where we weren’t allowed to live together, were hardly allowed to see each other because visiting the states when you’re applying for a greencard can get you banned for life.
By the time one wave of migrants is assimilated and begin to want higher wages they are undercut by further migrants. The world is a far smaller place than it used to be. I am from the UK by the way not America.
The answer is unionism, tightening immigration laws while allowing business to move around willynilly will mean all business flees the UK to avoid the cost of labor. Immigration is hard, even with open borders leaving everything and everyone you know is hard, immigrants are by nature people who pursue better and more, they pursued moving, didn’t they?
The labor organizers I’m talking about were not assimilated. Most were first generation and didn’t speak English and they STILL fought for better labor conditions in their adopted country.
Anti-immigrant sentiment is real convenient for employers who want to keep their employees punching down and ignoring the real cause of the problem
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 