Food for thought.

   The following is another quote from the book which I referenced yesterday, 2019: The Best American Travel Writing, Alexandra Fuller, ed.
    "It is a perversion of conventional human rights that freedom of movement is granted for capital, but not for labor.  Anyone who believes that a child born anywhere in the world deserves an opportunity for a stable, healthy life must advocate for steps toward freedom of movement. The only alternative would be a world where all states are truly on an equal footing, and that went out the window with gunboat diplomacy, with systematic looting of the developing world through debt, with colonization, with the slave trade itself. These misdeed shaped the world as we know it. We cannot ignore this history and assert that feeding Haitians is just Haiti's problem. Humans should have the right to migrate, especially to the places that benefited so much from the historical exploitation of their homelands. By barring free movement, we guarantee countless tales of people resorting to desperate measures to survive." Alex Macgregor, p. 165, reprinted from Longreads.
    Why have I never thought of the inequity of the free movement of capital but not labor?  As climate change destroys the livelihood and habitat of many restrictions on freedom of movement with only become more onerous.  The author has written of his visit to a Haitian island which might be one of the most densely populated places on earth. He summarize the history of exploitation of Haiti and after his visit to the island reflects on this inequitable world.  The article's title is Is This the Most Crowded Island in the World?
     Just because I'm chilling in Bangkok doesn't mean I can't be thinking. Responses to this, all my posts are welcome.

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