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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: - bindin
by 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.