Job hopping helped Silicon Valley thrive. Why do other states restrict it?
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Re: Job hopping helped Silicon Valley thrive. Why do other states restrict it?
#2This is absolutely an underappreciated feature of SV, and prior to this article I had also heard it held up as one of the reasons SV has a relatively more active and larger startup environment than Boston.
Given the nature of startups and the surprisingly high turnover I've seen of people coming and going at all sorts of companies, it seems impossible to me to create a vibrant, innovative economy with strong non-competes. This is particularly true because the most powerful non-competes are signed by the most senior management, so those with the most experience and best view of a sector are the least able to start something new after leaving their previous gig.
Re: Job hopping helped Silicon Valley thrive. Why do other states restrict it?
#3Repugnant policies like this are an ongoing evolution of the profit motive. It's such a simple mechanism: profit motive -> investment in policy support -> weakened economic standing for the weaker players.
What is the corrective mechanism, the courts?
Re: Job hopping helped Silicon Valley thrive. Why do other states restrict it?
#4Repugnant policies like this are an ongoing evolution of the profit motive. It's such a simple mechanism: profit motive -> investment in policy support -> weakened economic standing for the weaker players. What is the corrective mechanism, the courts?
Eligible voters actually voting would help.
Re: Job hopping helped Silicon Valley thrive. Why do other states restrict it?
#5It wasn't about the PC vs the minicomputer. Ok Intel is based in Santa Clara, but the PC story was really about Microsoft.
It was the internet. Sun among others were pushing open standards, TCP/IP, and the internet while DEC tried to go proprietary with DECNet. It might not have paid off for Sun in the long term, but the industry in Bay Area was definitely pointed in the right direction.
Re: Job hopping helped Silicon Valley thrive. Why do other states restrict it?
#6Repugnant policies like this are an ongoing evolution of the profit motive. It's such a simple mechanism: profit motive -> investment in policy support -> weakened economic standing for the weaker players. What is the corrective mechanism, the courts?
I think it's obvious we have to abolish the profit motive. I mean, what has it done for us lately?
Re: Job hopping helped Silicon Valley thrive. Why do other states restrict it?
#7Repugnant policies like this are an ongoing evolution of the profit motive. It's such a simple mechanism: profit motive -> investment in policy support -> weakened economic standing for the weaker players. What is the corrective mechanism, the courts?
Eligible voters actually voting would help.
Vote for whom exactly? Obama has done very little for labor. Do you content Romney would of done a better job? Or that a 3rd party candidate is viable? That trend trickles down to the local level in my experience. The US is not a democracy anymore[0] more drastic action is required.
Re: Job hopping helped Silicon Valley thrive. Why do other states restrict it?
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eligible voters actually voting would help.
Vote for whom exactly? Obama has done very little for labor. Do you content Romney would of done a better job? Or that a 3rd party candidate is viable? That trend trickles down to the local level in my experience. The US is not a democracy anymore[0] more drastic action is required. [0] http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
Politicians naturally drift to the issues that people will vote over. If the electorate cares about an issue, you'll see political action. In this sense, your parent comment is correct. Obama and hypothetical Romney aren't doing anything about this because it isn't a voting issue.
Re: Job hopping helped Silicon Valley thrive. Why do other states restrict it?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Vote for whom exactly? Obama has done very little for labor. Do you content Romney would of done a better job? Or that a 3rd party candidate is viable? That trend trickles down to the local level in my experience. The US is not a democracy anymore[0] more drastic action is required. [0] http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
Politicians naturally drift to the issues that people will vote over. If the electorate cares about an issue, you'll see political action. In this sense, your parent comment is correct. Obama and hypothetical Romney aren't doing anything about this because it isn't a voting issue.
> If the electorate cares about an issue, you'll see political action.
Read the article I linked above and the study it references. That is empirically false.
Re: Job hopping helped Silicon Valley thrive. Why do other states restrict it?
#10CA Labor Code section 2870 (you don't give up IP rights to the work you did in your own time) is also vastly important.