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I first encountered this idea reading VoxDay. He was against free markets because - to paraphrase - US workers are too stupid to compete. This tribalism is so
by mdpopescu 8y ago
I first encountered this idea reading VoxDay. He was against free markets because - to paraphrase - US workers are too stupid to compete.
This tribalism is so strange to me. I can sort of understand the US-vs-the-world thing (the US is huge), but being from Europe, with dozens of tiny countries, the ideas that Belgians are intrinsically worth more protection than Albanians is just nuts.
- ebg13 8y ago> the ideas that Belgians are intrinsically worth more protection than Albanians is just nuts They aren't intrinsically worth more, but it matters if you happen to be one of those Belgians who loses your job to an Albanian who earns less than it costs for you to not live on the street.
- mdpopescu 8y agoYou can't lose your job; it's not something you owned in the first place.