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sadly, that is not how capitalism works in practice. employers have a vastly higher amount of leverage at the negotiation table compared to employees. Dutch s
by kazen44 5y ago
sadly, that is not how capitalism works in practice.
employers have a vastly higher amount of leverage at the negotiation table compared to employees.
Dutch society (and most of western Europe) has made an explicit choice to create a social contract in which employees and employers are bound by the law of the government in question. and that law contains rules about employment.
mind you these rules exists because of the risk of the threat of violent uprisings in the 1850's.
the revolutions of 1848 are a result of working in the way you just stated. it leads to massive unrest and instability.
- yawaworht1978 5y agoYou can include southern and eastern Europe as well, it's just bit different there. When society was still less mobile and many jobs were meant to be forever(when I started to work, this was coming to an end slowly), workers took their jobs very seriously(none of that we are family messaging on intranets like these days) and everyone knew their place, workers respected a managers authority and I have seen on more than one occasions how attempted manager power play was shut down right on the spot, often with let's say credible promises of sever aggression. Some parts of Europe have a population that's a bit short tempered, such things like some coked up Uber manager touching someone's gf or wife would be dealt with swiftly and personally. There are many such social contracts, written, unwritten and I am proud that Europe has them and is keeping them. Interestingly, having spent plenty of time in LATAM, many people consider themselves leftists, but it's very, very different, the social system is bad due to lack of money, or impractical allocation of funds, but the will and spirit is there.