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[Tom <tom AT honeychrome.com>]

On Feb 23, 2008, at 1:55 PM, homestead-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:


> > But that is not really the object of the program- the
> > object is to constrain the mobility of labor and allow capital to
> > move freely to exploit that constrained labor

Good observation, but what has been happening is that the labor has been
moving with or without the leave to do so.

> > .


The movement of labor is insignificant compared to the movement of  
capital and resource.  Those living on the US/Mexico border may  
disagree, but what perhaps is true for their locale is not true for  
the world on the whole.  This is not necessarily and argument that  
labor ought to enjoy the same freedom of mobility that capital and  
resource now enjoy but that there should be equality of freedom of  
mobility.  The case can be made that capital ought to be less free to  
move just as it can be made that labor ought to be more free.