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Freedom to Quit Doesn't Ensure Real Freedom

The myth that exploited workers can simply quit and find a better job fails because conditions can be pervasive across an entire industry—for example tipped restaurant servers face such ubiquitous sexual harassment that switching restaurants leaves them equally exposed—so freedom of movement does not deliver freedom, analogous to free migration within a uniformly communist bloc.

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Elizabeth Anderson

Evidence Quote

Imagine Eastern Europe had its own version of the EU and you had free migration behind the Iron Curtain... you could go from Poland to Hungary, but it's still communist, you're not going to be more free. So freedom of movement doesn't necessarily help you that much.

Source

139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and IdeologySean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:29:50 AM

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