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that is what always happens to unions and why I oppose them. They eventually corrupt because they are a political process, especially whrn in bed with regulator
by pibechorro 5y ago
that is what always happens to unions and why I oppose them. They eventually corrupt because they are a political process, especially whrn in bed with regulators (look at Biden subcidies for tech only if unionized vs Tesla).
The same logic applies for business lobbying regulators, they corrupt and capture.
We need free markets, devoid of any political intervention. Individuals voluntarily coming to emergent consensus is the way towards fair and uncorruptable futures.
- qsort 5y agoI agree that letting the market do its job would be the optimal solution, but this is unfortunately unrealistic. In most job markets there are information asymmetries so large that the market is effectively "nonfree" to begin with (free markets don't naturally emerge, you need at least some regulation for them to flourish). In a utopian future where workers can freely reject bad working conditions, I agree, they would be unnecessary. For the time being, they are a necessary evil. I once said half-jokingly that if they ever founded a union where membership is conditional on a whiteboard interview I'd join in a heartbeat. You need to keep out the politicized idiots who join a union not because of the union itself, but because they want to LARP as communists or whatever.
- pjmlp 5y agoI have seen what free markets do to weekends, vacations, employee illness, and barging power, no thanks. Want to see free markets in action? Talk to the Asian or South American folks at the end of an offshoring sweet shop. I bet plenty can jump in here, with their "barging power".