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Nobody's going to accept indentures in this day and age.
by vinceguidry 9y ago
Nobody's going to accept indentures in this day and age.
- Kluny 9y agoI would, for a chance to be trained in a technology that I don't know and have a steady job for 5 years or so.
- humanrebar 9y agoI'm surprised that no employers even offer this as an option when hiring. There might be some legal barriers to this problem like recovering the investments when the employee breaks the contract? Seems like some kind of insurance would help there, though.
- vinceguidry 9y agoI asked my last employer about this and they said that no contract can bind an employee to a company. Any contract would be one-sided in favor of the employee. Seems obvious when you think about it. Indentured servitude is wrong.
- humanrebar 9y ago> ...they said that no contract can bind an employee to a company. Seems to work fine for athletes, actors, medical residents, certain kinds of scholarships, etc.
- vinceguidry 9y agoI dunno the exact law, but those segments seem like specially-regulated segments of the economy.
- humanrebar 9y agoMaybe knowledge work is also special. Arguably medicine is a form of knowledge work. And it's not exactly a small or especially niche sector of the economy.
- humanrebar 9y agoPro athletes, medical residents, and certain teachers seem OK with it. College professors can't exactly take their tenure with them.
- Zimahl 9y agoPro athletes ... seem OK with it. Pro athletes are a terrible example. There has been decades of litigation, lockouts, negotiations, etc. across almost all leagues to get to where we are now and there are many that continue to think the system is too restrictive for the players and too much in a league's favor.