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I disagree. What you describe is Western Europe with depressed wages and less innovation and dynamic economy. You can’t regulate/unionize into prosperity.
by nxm 4y ago
I disagree. What you describe is Western Europe with depressed wages and less innovation and dynamic economy. You can’t regulate/unionize into prosperity.
- Apocryphon 4y agoAnd yet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34028087 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34028087
- lmm 4y agoWhat's "prosperity"? I feel much better off with a decent work-life balance and the assurance that I won't arbitrarily lose my job than I would with a larger number in my bank account but none of that protection.
- ryan93 4y ago[flagged]
- lmm 4y ago> you can literally start a company with the coworkers you would have unionized with and created security for yourself and them. I can, but we'd still be taking on a bunch of risk - we'd have to put the capital into the company, as owners we would no longer be eligible for unemployment insurance if the company did fold, we have the possibility of one of us kicking another out so internal politics suddenly matters - when the whole point of the exercise was to get stability even at the cost of some upside.