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I hate how we use the political system to fight progress. I feel like a majority of startups end up facing this. Uber, vidangel, mixcrate. To paraphrase Russ Ro
by crobertsbmw 10y ago
I hate how we use the political system to fight progress. I feel like a majority of startups end up facing this. Uber, vidangel, mixcrate. To paraphrase Russ Roberts, progress isn't made by the union getting you an extra two dollars an hour, it's made by inventing a bulldozer and letting one man do the job of 50.
- lsiebert 10y agoWeekends and 40 hour work week and no children working and health insurance aren't progress? But seriously this isn't about unions, this is about how money influences processes. Those with money get to make the rules because they can afford to go to court when others can't. You want progress, I'll take either a liberal or a libertarian solution to that BS.
- khedoros1 10y agoThe comment you responded to isn't about unions either. To re-paraphrase it: "Progress isn't made by small increases in quantity, but large changes brought by doing something completely differently." Or "Progress doesn't usually happen iteratively, but in great bounds when fundamental assumptions are challenged". The things that you listed are examples of that kind of progress.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoWell sure, progress may not be made by union fighting for your paycheck[0]. But progress is a force that doesn't care about people; if inventing that bulldozer means for every one man working 50 go starving, so be it. That's why you have to moderate progress from time to time. Also, not everything that looks like a tech business is progress. Uber, for instance, is nothing but a taxi cab that uses investor money to break the law and get away with it, and they're also pretty douchy about doing that. A sociopathic bully that pretends to be a white knight, basically. [0] - though lsiebert's caveat about working conditions applies.