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Unions are comprised of large groups of people, and are subject to make the same kinds of "self-serving" mistakes as any other large group of people (like corpo
by dls2016 5y ago
Unions are comprised of large groups of people, and are subject to make the same kinds of "self-serving" mistakes as any other large group of people (like corporations and governments and universities and churches and...).
Which is entirely the point!
Why should we trust a large monopoly like Google to have workers' best interests at heart when there's no counter-balancing force with the same power (be it a union, or trust-busting arm of the federal government)?
Everyone forgets that Google and Apple already colluded to suppress wages! https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/01/16/377614477/tech-giants-will-pay-415-million-to-settle-employees-lawsuit https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/01/16/37...
- AnthonyMouse 5y ago> Why should we trust a large monopoly like Google to have workers' best interests at heart when there's no counter-balancing force with the same power (be it a union, or trust-busting arm of the federal government)? The answer is that we shouldn't, but the latter solution is much better than the former.
- djfy6fdyyf 5y ago
- brightball 5y agoThere is another counter balancing force...numerous other opportunities. It's not a situation like Boeing where there's a very limited number of other places that you can take your skills.
- throwaway2048 5y agoThe counterbalancing forces google actively colludes with you mean?
- brightball 5y agoIs Google colluding with every employer and entrepreneur in the country?
- throwaway2048 5y agoDo they need to be to poke a significant hole in your argument? They colluded with basically all of the largest high paying employers in the SV ecosystem. That is absolutely going to have a massive systematic effect on compensation.
- brightball 5y agoDoes a union fix that?
- dls2016 5y ago> There is another counter balancing force...numerous other opportunities. The "take it or leave it" attitude strongly insinuates that corporations should be allowed dictatorial control over the manner in which work is completed. There are too many examples to point to which demonstrate the b.s. in this line of thinking. I may be reading too much into what you wrote, but I never understand the libertarian need to reject government and union control but embrace everything corporate. It's plain weird.
- brightball 5y agoI'm not embracing corporate. I'm embracing competition.
- JAlexoid 5y agoIt's inherently unlibertarian to reject unions.