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Except this has adequately changed labor policies exactly zero times ever. When large companies can exploit labor (by being the ones with all of the money and p
by journalctl 7y ago
Except this has adequately changed labor policies exactly zero times ever. When large companies can exploit labor (by being the ones with all of the money and power), it doesn’t matter how many people quit. Why haven’t the masses left Walmart? Because people need jobs to survive, and realistically some people have no better options.
The “free” market for labor isn’t. I recommend reading up about the labor movement in the US at the turn of the 20th century and onward. You might be surprised by a few things, including what it does and doesn’t take to get your employer to change their behavior.
- Cederfjard 7y agoIf you’re an engineer working for Google, I’m certain that there are more options available to you than to the average Walmart worker. That’s something the grandparent comment addressed.
- busterarm 7y agoWhat says they're all engineers?
- anonuser123456 7y agoYou have to live in a complete fantasy world to assert Google has some sort of monopsony power over labor markets. There are literally 100 companies that would hire a Google employee within walking distance of Google's MV HQ.
- perl4ever 7y agoWell, also pretty much every company not within walking distance looking for a software engineer would probably consider hiring a Google employee. Of which there are even more than a hundred.