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Except you are extremely well compensated and can quit at any time.

• moate 5y ago
  Yea but other than that and your management's inability to sell you to other companies, it's literally the exact same thing /s.
• bialpio 5y ago
  Except sometimes just because you are able to quit doesn't mean you can quit. Hopefully that's less prevalent in IT, but does happen (e.g. people on work visas that cannot change their abusive employer w/o having to GTFO the country).
  • TeMPOraL 5y ago
    It's simpler and more common than that. - Most people don't have significant savings. Even in IT. - Many people have dependents to support. - Quitting a job and finding a new one is a big hassle. - Your chances at finding a comparable job to your previous one are strongly correlated with your performance at your past jobs. Combined, this means almost no one can just quit, without putting themselves into immediate, moderate-to-high threat to the lives of themselves and their families.
    • bialpio 5y ago
      You're right! I just went with an example that used to be the most relevant to me personally (the "work visa" part, fortunately not the "abusive employer" part). Let's throw in one more reason: health insurance being tied to current employer also means people may be forced to stay, at least until they line up their next gig.
• timwaagh 5y ago
  Except it's not that way. You can't quit your job except to take another one. They have things like 'real estate market' and 'taxes' to ensure that. You can't quit in the way most people imagine quitting. We need this for the economy to function. Just like the Romans needed slavery for theirs. You are right about the compensation. That part has improved considerably. Still the supposedly appalling thing about slavery wasn't the lack of compensation but the lack of freedom.