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Maybe some, but nearly every person I've ever heard even mention unions has held one of two (mutually exclusive) views: "unions good" or "unions bad". It's nev

• adastra22 3y ago
  That’s not a contradiction. I’m in the “union bad” camp, though I’m also certain there are examples of good unions. I wouldn’t deny that there are. But I wouldn’t consider a good union as a counter example to my “unions bad” conclusion, and I do t believe this to be motivated reasoning. For you see, by “unions bad” I mean that incentive misalignment makes all unions become self-serving and focus on protectionist policies that are ultimately in the long term a disservice to the workers they represent and the economy as a whole. TL;DR: unions come with bad incentives, and bad incentives eventually result in worse outcomes. Ergo, “unions bad.”