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> Your life isn’t tied to a company Health insurance isn't tied to a company? Your ability to survive and feed your family isn't tied to your company? Lack of
by Slackwise 2y ago
> Your life isn’t tied to a company
Health insurance isn't tied to a company? Your ability to survive and feed your family isn't tied to your company? Lack of opportunities in the job market? Lack of equal salary/benefits at alternative companies? Non-competes, H1-B visas....
> so if you don’t like how they chose the leader or what they’re doing, you can leave.
Just one small thing Ben: leave to work for who? Who isn't hiring CEOs and running businesses the same way as everyone else?
- wat10000 2y agoPlease don’t quote half a sentence and then argue with it when the second half is an important qualifier.
- t-writescode 2y agoMany of these are uniquely American problems, and the many of the people and especially the highest in power in the United States have chosen and continue to choose to bind all of that to the company you work for (or don't).
- satvikpendem 2y agoYes, it's ironic that a democracy has exactly created the situation they lament about, the lack of universal healthcare. Unfortunately there is no political will to do it, while ironically an autocrat could cut through the red tape and get it done, as it had been enacted in several Asian countries in the last half century.