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Re:Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance by munificent on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:24PM (#23169273)
It's important to remember that free trade is not the ultimate cause. Greed among the wealthy elite is. What happened is that rich business owners deliberately pushed for free trade laws as a way to circumvent the laws the labor movement got passed to protect people.

They sold out American workers to increase their profit margins.

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Re:Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance by andrekandre on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:23PM (#23171992)
said in maybe a slightly different way:

"free trade" allows for the free movement of capital, but not the free movement of labor which is stuck relatively immobile (except maybe from "cheaper" countries to the more "expensive" ones)

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