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Because the price determined by the market is wrong. Wrong! I wish taxpayers had a union.
by mynameishere 7y ago
Because the price determined by the market is wrong. Wrong!
I wish taxpayers had a union.
- arkades 7y agoMost adjuncts are in the business of selling their services to effective monopsonies. Oligopolies, at best. Free market economics don’t exonerate the result.
- xref 7y agoI don’t agree with the parent but calling the educational system a monopsony sounds even less believable, there are tens of thousands of educational institutions in America alone
- arkades 7y agoMost adjuncts - heck, most people - are not capable of moving around the country chasing low-paying, often part-time jobs. When you’re geographically locked, the universities become effective monopsonies everywhere but NY, Boston, etc
- ineedasername 7y agoTax payers sort of do have a union where the collective bargaining takes place in the form of electing official to work on their behalf. Often enough though, those elected end up working against the intersts of voters, sometimes explicitly advocating for policies that voters don't realize are not in their interests. Not unlike unions that hire a negotiator to work on their behalf, if the negotiator ignored the contractual priorities given to them by the unions.
- slang800 7y agoExcept suffrage is not limited to taxpayers.
- ineedasername 7y agoNot sure what you mean. Everyone doesn't pay all types of taxes, but everyone pays some types. Payroll tax, sales tax, etc.
- analog31 7y agoTaxpayers do have a union. The taxpayer's union in my state outlawed the teacher's union.
- purplezooey 7y agoWe got that Howard Jarvis thing that brought us so much wonderful stuff... like Prop 13.