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
Pro immigrant sentiment is really good for people that want unlimited labour pools.
I worked a job that paid a year’s salary of a filipino in a month, doing the same job. Do you think bosses are going to bother hiring me when they can even be given more money as grants for hiring a foreigner ready to work for pittance
This idea that working class people are just stupid dumb ignorant racists who are are being tricked into hating immigrants is a fucking falsehood. It is the working class that always suffers with these social experiments, and now, after hundreds of years of fighting we’ve found ourselves in a position to work safely and for a decent wage and it has halted because of the same people who are claiming to have our interests at heart are working against us.
Destroying our culture, destroying our ethnicity and making us compete with every man woman and child on the planet for jobs, living space and our institutions is not fucking progressive.
As a thoroughly unrespectable prole, you are definitely a fucking racist. Unlimited labor is not the problem. There is no shortage of work to be done. The issue is competition pushing wages down, eliminate competition for jobs, eliminate the problem.
“destroying our ethnicity and culture” is a load of bull. Cultural mixing is what keeps us strong and vibrant.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 