I agree.
Why is a worker from a rich country entitled to be "protected" from a worker in a poor country? With all the advantages you've been given - superior education, welfare safety net, political stability and powerful men who share your culture more likely to promote you - why do you need to stick another roadblock in the way of poor worker?
All those benefits you have should have improved your employability. This should allow you to charge more than the Latvian peasant according to the free market. But if even after all that, you're still no better than him, what right do you have to say he and his family should remain in abject poverty?
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I agree. Why is a worker from a rich country entitled to be "protected" from a worker in a poor country? With all the advantages you've been given - superior education, welfare safety net, political stability and powerful men who share your culture more likely to promote you - why do you need to stick another roadblock in the way of poor worker? All those benefits you have should have improved your employability. This should allow you to charge more than the Latvian peasant according to the free market. But if even after all that, you're still no better than him, what right do you have to say he and his family should remain in abject poverty?