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Let's not forget the bigger tool in the belt and the one that is more likely to be more fair and balanced and affordable, and that is not having forced arbitrat
by encryptluks2 4y ago
Let's not forget the bigger tool in the belt and the one that is more likely to be more fair and balanced and affordable, and that is not having forced arbitration clauses and rights waivers. Companies doing this are not doing it to do anyone a favor and to pretend otherwise is a con by the same people that want you to lose.
- jerf 4y agoThere is a certain amount of evidence that if enough people start using the arbitration clauses, companies start reconsidering them and returning to standard class-action clauses. Companies for a long time were using arbitration in no small part precisely because nobody knew how to do it. But every person who goes through the process learns how to do it, and even if they start with Company X, that makes it that much easier to go after Company Y later. So over time knowledge is diffusing out. If the arbitration clauses offend you, you can take concrete action to help getting them out of the contracts by using them yourself.
- glitcher 4y agoAnd imagine if we started teaching high school kids about these types of tools to help them navigate the real world! I barely understood the broad picture of how government was supposed to work, much less offered any "applied" knowledge of the systems I would actually need to interact with as a citizen.