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Labor groups tend to thrive on restrictions. They benefit from many and often successfully lobby for exceptions to the others. They're natural opponents to a fr

Labor groups tend to thrive on restrictions. They benefit from many and often successfully lobby for exceptions to the others. They're natural opponents to a free market for labor. Larger corporations tend to be as well, since smaller competitors have more trouble complying, they get an advantage. So they cooperate with labor groups to oppose trends like the gig work. I was surprised that the gig economy grew so far before the regulators started to crush it. I hope they don't get to finish the job.

save_ferris 7y ago
How has the average American worker benefited from free market labor over the last 40 years? Free market labor has given us, among many other things: - binding arbitration in labor disputes that heavily tip the scales in favor of the company - stagnating wages while the pace of income inequality continues to grow - large corporations that are deemed too important to fail by the Fed and therefore not fully held accountable for egregious mismanagement and worse - unequal access to benefits like insurance, which corporations lobby heavily to restrict access to - restrictive non-compete clauses that subject workers to completely unnecessary legal liability and influence over their careers We’ve also seen huge companies in the tech industry collude to suppress wages (Pixar), insert themselves as middlemen to capture and intentionally maintain a fundamentally obsolete tax collection infrastructure (TurboTax), catalyze genocide in Myanmar (Facebook, internet.org), and spread misinformation throughout the globe in order to interfere in elections. How exactly does one overcome these kinds of challenges if not through grassroots organized movements?
- kyuudou 7y ago
  >How exactly does one overcome these kinds of challenges if not through grassroots organized movements? Don't work for them, don't buy their products, spread the word. It's not easy but nothing worth doing is.

save_ferris 7y ago

How has the average American worker benefited from free market labor over the last 40 years? Free market labor has given us, among many other things: - binding arbitration in labor disputes that heavily tip the scales in favor of the company - stagnating wages while the pace of income inequality continues to grow - large corporations that are deemed too important to fail by the Fed and therefore not fully held accountable for egregious mismanagement and worse - unequal access to benefits like insurance, which corporations lobby heavily to restrict access to - restrictive non-compete clauses that subject workers to completely unnecessary legal liability and influence over their careers We’ve also seen huge companies in the tech industry collude to suppress wages (Pixar), insert themselves as middlemen to capture and intentionally maintain a fundamentally obsolete tax collection infrastructure (TurboTax), catalyze genocide in Myanmar (Facebook, internet.org), and spread misinformation throughout the globe in order to interfere in elections. How exactly does one overcome these kinds of challenges if not through grassroots organized movements?

kyuudou 7y ago
>How exactly does one overcome these kinds of challenges if not through grassroots organized movements? Don't work for them, don't buy their products, spread the word. It's not easy but nothing worth doing is.