> employees to choose to not join companies with contracts that they don't agree with And do what? There's not a robust social safety net in the US, if every c

> employees to choose to not join companies with contracts that they don't agree with And do what? There's not a robust social safety net in the US, if every company in your industry has a boilerplate non-compete you can't just choose not to sign any of them. > employers offer better incentive to not leave for roles at risk to poaching e.g. RSUs. Why would they do that when they can just put non-competes in their contracts? Or to put it another way, it's extremely hard to quantify how many people didn't sign an employment contract due to a non-compete (and even harder to quantify the value of that potential employee), it's extremely easy to quantify the cost of an RSU program. Which solution do you think an entity optimized for profit maximization will choose most frequently?