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1 person vs a large company is a power imbalance. The company doesn't even need you to survive. You need it.
by kittiepryde 6y ago
1 person vs a large company is a power imbalance. The company doesn't even need you to survive. You need it.
- WalterBright 6y agoIt follows from that that Microsoft/Google/Etc would be paying all their employees minimum wage.
- marcinzm 6y agoYou mean they’d do something like form a cartel with each other to keep wages down in unison?
- WalterBright 6y agoI mean if they have all the power, employees will be forced to accept minimum wages.
- heavyset_go 6y ago> form a cartel with each other to keep wages down in unison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
- manigandham 6y agoThat's multiple companies and already illegal. The point is that if no single person in a non-union company had any power then they wouldn't be paid anywhere near what they are in these companies.
- masonic 6y agoThat's multiple companies and already illegal. And yet it happened, led by Steve Jobs.
- wonder_er 6y agoWhat do you think about the other primary claim of the comment? > We should repeal every minimum wage law, yes. They were created a century ago with racist intentions, their effects are still racist and yet today they are defended as being "anti-racist."