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The employer has dramatically more power in the free market. Especially when backed by endless piles of VC money. Remember that the free market didn't end chil
by asdasfasdfasdf 6y ago
The employer has dramatically more power in the free market. Especially when backed by endless piles of VC money.
Remember that the free market didn't end child labor, create weekends, or the minimum wage.
- Aarostotle 6y agoIt only enabled the technological foundations to do all of the above.
- rrose 6y agonone of those things required technology. pre-industrial society would not have collapsed if laborers had weekends and a minimum wage
- node-bayarea 6y agoHow do you know that? Because of industrial revolutions, minimum wage and stuff was even thought about and eventually implemented! Without industries that afforded that, these social policies would have totally collapsed!
- chillwaves 6y agoSociety seems to be progressing just fine with a min. wage and weekends off.