Hello, I'm John Donvan, moderator of Intelligent

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One of the often overlooked assumptions about life in these

United States is that built into that word united that we're

all part of the same policy and that we have the right

within our borders to go anywhere we want in pursuit of a job.

You're from North Dakota, there is nothing in the law to stop you

from going to get a job in North Carolina.

And Europe has taken that idea a lot further with one shared open

market for two dozen plus countries so that a chipmaker in Dublin

or an insurance company in Sofia can hire the best people

affordable from Finland to France or from Estonia to Austria.

So what is the lesson or more to the point for us?

What if the U.S. set out to make partnership deals with other

open labor markets?

Say the U.S. does a deal with Europe or the U.S. in India or the U.S.

in China.

When the barriers to labor fall, who would gain and who would lose?

Now this is a big what if but it sounds like there's a lot to

debate in there.

So let's have it.

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