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The more money is spent on healthcare and housing the less people have for everything else thus exasperating inequality. Labor unions hamper corporate options

The more money is spent on healthcare and housing the less people have for everything else thus exasperating inequality. Labor unions hamper corporate options and flexibility and hopefully soon they will all be replaced by machines maybe that would finally make it clear to marxists how much of a commodity labor really is.

prolikewh0a 8y ago
>The more money is spent on healthcare and housing the less people have for everything else thus exasperating inequality. Sure, I'm not going to disagree there. >Labor unions hamper corporate options and flexibility So? They no longer will have the option to screw over their workers with low wages and high cost benefits and I think that's an absolute win for the lower 80-90% of the country.
- econ4all 8y ago
  Companies should have all the flexibility to restructure in order to survive tough times or pivot to follow breakthroughs otherwise all these workers won't have a job.
  - prolikewh0a 8y ago
    This is not really a great argument as it assumes workers would willingly internally vote away their own jobs, and that's likely to not happen. Nobody wants to be unemployed.
    - econ4all 8y ago
      They would stand in the way of every layoff and changes they don't like, that's their mandate, unions are just another entity fighting for the status quo and another hoop a company needs to jump through. If the costs for major expenditures were lower people will have more resources to climb the socioeconomic ladder, and we won't need to decrease the dynamism of the labor market and saddle corporations with more obligations to achieve that. Oh and companies shouldn't pay for employee healthcare, that's a WW2 relic that only benefits health insurers by keeping costs high.
      - prolikewh0a 8y ago
        >They would stand in the way of every layoff and changes they don't like, that's their mandate, unions are just another entity fighting for the status quo and another hoop a company needs to jump through. Good, the workers make literally all of the profit and without them the company would cease to exist or make any money. It's a hoop they should have to jump through. The system we have now is maintaining the status quo, so I think you have that backwards.
        econ4all 8y ago
        GOTO https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17766831 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17766831

prolikewh0a 8y ago

>The more money is spent on healthcare and housing the less people have for everything else thus exasperating inequality. Sure, I'm not going to disagree there. >Labor unions hamper corporate options and flexibility So? They no longer will have the option to screw over their workers with low wages and high cost benefits and I think that's an absolute win for the lower 80-90% of the country.

econ4all 8y ago
Companies should have all the flexibility to restructure in order to survive tough times or pivot to follow breakthroughs otherwise all these workers won't have a job.
- prolikewh0a 8y ago
  This is not really a great argument as it assumes workers would willingly internally vote away their own jobs, and that's likely to not happen. Nobody wants to be unemployed.
  - econ4all 8y ago
    They would stand in the way of every layoff and changes they don't like, that's their mandate, unions are just another entity fighting for the status quo and another hoop a company needs to jump through. If the costs for major expenditures were lower people will have more resources to climb the socioeconomic ladder, and we won't need to decrease the dynamism of the labor market and saddle corporations with more obligations to achieve that. Oh and companies shouldn't pay for employee healthcare, that's a WW2 relic that only benefits health insurers by keeping costs high.
    - prolikewh0a 8y ago
      >They would stand in the way of every layoff and changes they don't like, that's their mandate, unions are just another entity fighting for the status quo and another hoop a company needs to jump through. Good, the workers make literally all of the profit and without them the company would cease to exist or make any money. It's a hoop they should have to jump through. The system we have now is maintaining the status quo, so I think you have that backwards.
      - econ4all 8y ago
        GOTO https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17766831 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17766831