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No. What improves the lives of employees is competition between employers for said employees. For that you need enough employers and thus - startups. Which requ
by nickpp 6y ago
No. What improves the lives of employees is competition between employers for said employees. For that you need enough employers and thus - startups. Which require economic freedom.
- rvense 6y agoAre you seriously saying that the advancement in worker's conditions in the late 19th and throughout the 20th century were due only to employers being in competition with one another, and not due to legislative demands and union pressure? That the difference between conditions in, say, France and America are because French employers are just nicer people or have faced stiffer competition?
- WalterBright 6y agoI've been both employer and employee. When employees don't like their job, they quit and move on. If that wasn't true, every employee would be at minimum wage, and Google wouldn't offer free lunches.
- rvense 6y agoI'm not really talking about 20-something software developers in Silicon Valley. There are things that keep people in jobs they don't like.