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You don't get to decide who leaves. If people don't like a companies dictator then they are free to go join another company. It's this competition in the free m
by technotony 7y ago
You don't get to decide who leaves. If people don't like a companies dictator then they are free to go join another company. It's this competition in the free market for labor that helps prevent the abuses of tyranny.
- xiler 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony
- lexs 7y agoThat is a terribly naive perspective on the "free market for labor"
- pathseeker 7y agoNot in software.
- sbarre 7y agoIf by "software" you mean the tiny bubble that is silicon valley (and aspirants). The majority of developers out there hold down "real" jobs like everyone else at giant faceless corporations where they have no say and no power.
- geofft 7y agoThere are some H-1B holders and green card applicants I'd like you to meet. Also some pregnant people, people who look like they could get pregnant, people with significant medical expenditures, .... Yes, obviously, the control that an employer has over these people is much less than the control a governmental dictator would have - but it's much, much more than the control Guido or Linus have over anyone.