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>The salaries also reflect the negotiating power Right. And the 0 compensation of slaves before emancipation in the United States reflected their relative nego
by crdoconnor 10y ago
>The salaries also reflect the negotiating power
Right. And the 0 compensation of slaves before emancipation in the United States reflected their relative negotiating power.
>The pricing of labor is exactly what you'd expect from economic and political incentives
Right. If you get the police to beat up union organizers and throw them in prison it does tend to exert downward pressure on wages - which was exactly my point.
That's partly why it's the "2nd best country" to do business according to CATO: docile, servile labor.
- SamReidHughes 10y agoNote that the only disagreement I have here (that I felt like articulating) is that the pay scales are "racist." Though I do want to point out that prohibiting unions from forming based on racial or country-of-origin lines is obviously a very reasonable thing for a country like Singapore to do. And so is prohibiting strikes without notice, or strikes, period, in essential sectors -- if you don't like it, go work in a non-essential sector.