I think it’s a good enough reason even if only 2 national govts didn’t prohibit any freedoms of movement and an additional govt allowed freedom of emigration only or freedom of immigration only. That said, the more nations that allowed total freedom of movement, the more Gresham’s Law applies, but I think a good example would be set and followed as long as one nation didn’t prohibit any freedoms of movement.
As a non-immigrant alien on a visa, I can say that it sucks not being able to engage in mutually beneficial trades of labor for wages in this country or to start my own business. No, really, it does. If I could have started making money at like 14 then I might have a much nicer life later on. Stupid laws. And I’m not even kidding.
Youre a smart guy, you should have a hobby of buying and selling on the internet peer to peer. You can easily keep your wealth in tangible goods, perhaps they arent convertible or stable, well you learn lessons. I have a friends who have made gooooood money online, one just kept flipping automobiles until he had a few nice cars.
Gresham’s law applies to situations where governments enforce a fixed exchange rate between two currencies which overprices one and underprices the other, such that the former “drives out” the latter. Immigration restrictions just bestow a restrictionist wage rate for domestic labor at the expense of foreign labor.