2/It seems as though they're preventing inflo, but the _net_ effect is preventing the outflow of talent.
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3/A more paranoid person might argue this as the real point of the exercise: Keep talented people locked in their lands of birth.
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4/Don't like the government, or the jobs, or whatever? Tough luck. You're stuck there. Capital will be mobile while talent is locked down.
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5/This is the Information Age equivalent of the acts that turned peasants into serfs simply by pwning their lands to a lord.
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If immigration clampdown is global, everyone is trapped in their own nation. Except the ultra-rich (google "investors visa" for details).
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If you have money to invest you can get a visa almost anywhere but North Korea. If you have only your labour? You're trapped.
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This allows free movement of capital to pursue profits wherever (captive) labour is cheapest. (Imperialism, per Marx, in its purest form.)
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Brexit, Trumpism, etc—is part of an economic imperialist push to maximize profit extraction from labour units (us), avoiding accountability.
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If you vote for restrictions on immigration you are, in the long term, potentially cutting your throat.
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i wonder if there's some characteristic of a world where capital can move freely and people are stuck where they are that'd be bad somehow
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Yeah, oh, like feudalism was *great* (if you were a duke or a king). Not so goo for the peasants or serfs, tho.
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