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JPnoodleman

(454 posts) Fri May 20, 2016, 10:15 PM May 2016

If TPP is allegedly a "Progressive Deal," why is there no free movement of people?

I mean if Capital is allowed to freely flow, why not labor to freely flow as well? It seems odd this is now being called a "progressive deal," with its many terrible aspects but it seems a lot could be done to help Labor if labor was free to chase higher wages just as Capital is free to chase cheaper labor.

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If TPP is allegedly a "Progressive Deal," why is there no free movement of people? (Original Post) JPnoodleman May 2016 OP

Could we maybe all declare ourselves to be corporations? raging moderate May 2016 #1

I don't think the 1%would really care; they used to always want Mexicans allowed in to work Blue Meany May 2016 #2

raging moderate

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1. Could we maybe all declare ourselves to be corporations?

Reply to JPnoodleman (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2016, 10:20 PM

May 2016

I mean, if some people can do it, what is stopping the rest of us, and could we band together to make it possible so we too can claim the privileges of corporations?

Blue Meany

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2. I don't think the 1%would really care; they used to always want Mexicans allowed in to work

Reply to JPnoodleman (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2016, 10:42 PM

May 2016

for below minimum wage, and it won't affect them in any way if we all go to Asia to find jobs. But now they have to worry about the white working class that they pander to with racism, so it's become an issue.

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