Comment by dragonwriter

19 days ago

No one said anything about “fairer labor regulations”, only a “free and liquid market in labor”. Free movement of labor is, as much as free movement of goods and capital, a component of a free market. Restrictions on labor movement are market restrictions which make a market non-free.

A free and liquid market in labor has some overlap with what people concerned with fairer labor market regulations want, but in other areas is diameteically opposed to what they want.

Free markets are unrealizable abstractions that lots of people like to appeal to vaguely, but very few consistently favor as more than a rhetorical device.