ln its heavy stage capital was as much fixed to the ground as were the laborers it engaged. Nowadays capital travels light - with cabin luggage only, which includes no more than a briefcase, a cellular phone and a portable computer. It can stop-over almost anywhere, and nowhere needs to stay longer than the satisfaction lasts. Labor, on the other hand, remains as immobilized as it was in the past –, but the place which it once anticipated being fixed to once and for all has lost its past solidity; searching in vain for boulders, anchors fall on friable sands. Some of the world’s residents are on the move; for the rest it is the world itself that refuses to stand still (BAUMAN, Liquid Modernity)