The Hidden Cost of Privatization

You're assuming that if the government didn't mandate health insurance, nobody would step in to help those people, which I don't believe is true. Lots of different groups – religious, businesses, municipalities, etc. – could fill that role. Individuals could even give directly to strangers in need through something like https://donorsee.com/.

We are told that from profits everything else will be optimised for the better, instead everything is optimised to make a profit.

That's pretty much how it works now. I've never had a boss who was able to accurately (or even non-accurately) gauge my productivity and I'll bet that unless your job is mind-numbing, you haven't either.

I've had bosses who have counted SLOC though and stupidly tried to use that to gauge my productivity.

Unions usually agree to formalize the existing peg to seniority so that the company doesn't use pay/promotion structure as a means to punish active union members.

>You wouldn't be allowed to do anything outside your extremely limited job description. That's someone else's job, don't take it away from them!

I'm strangely ok with my bosses not firing my coworker and then dumping all his work on me, which has happened to me.

>Find a good way to make your job more efficient? Sorry, you can't use that. It is not in your contract

This idea makes no sense to me. Furthermore, at a lot of the companies I've worked at, middle managers haven't given a damn about efficiency and they often purposefully reduced it so that they could increase their headcount (read: their power).

>Don't work too hard.

Am I supposed to be terrified of a company that makes me go home at a reasonable hour rather than implicitly pressuring me to stay at work until 10pm every night?

>The contract says that we are only supposed to solve 1 bug a day.

No it doesn't.

>You'd have to get some sort of union sponsored certification/significant barriers to entry, Because the union does not care about NEW workers.

Which may help separate some of the wheat from the chaff as it does with doctors. Are you in favor of this type of thing or would you prefer it was prevented?

http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer...

>Collective bargaining means that you won't be able to negotiate on an individual basis.

Yes, and that means higher pay overall. Divide and conquer isn't good for you as an individual.

>No matter how good at negotiating you are

Didn't you just say that you thought pay should be linked to your ability to contribute? Why now are you so keen on "ability to negotiate"? Are you morally opposed to seeing my equally skilled friends earn as much as me because they don't drive a bargain quite as hard as I do?

>Don't like the union? Too bad! You are forced to join it. Fuck you, you free rider!

So are you pro-free rider?

You seem to be saying that individual agreements with the company are "good" but collective agreements with the company (which are used to eliminate said free riders) are "bad". Why are collective agreements intrinsically bad?

>It doesn't matter if you believe that the union provides significant negatives

It does, which is why unions are run on a democratic basis. On the other hand, did you vote for your boss? Thought not.

Unions serve as the only really reliable check on corrupt corporate power running roughshod over workers. Sometimes they are corrupt. That does not mean that eliminating them will improve your situation.

And, of course, if you really don't want to work for a unionized workplace you can go and work at a non-unionized workplace.

Even now, there are places like https://surgerycenterok.com/ that prove high quality healthcare can be provided at affordable prices (they even list them on their website!).

I know I'm bastardizing the meaning but it got me thinking about Elon Musk versus "prototypical lotto winner that loses everything" you could certainly argue that he is using his wealth(as well as others) to benefit society, ie. mars, electrification of transportation, etc.