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Am I committing thought crimes?
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Cool cool. We can have our government stop recognizing the existence of corporations at the same time we outlaw unions. Deal?
Why? Corporations are largely great assets to a country, labor unions on the other hand are parasitic cartels.
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Am I committing thought crimes?
In the West we tend to believe in free association and the right of people to perform political activity without being beaten up by the police, at least most of the time.
LOL
The only reason labor unions are legal is that certain unions have outsized political clout, in a perfect world labor unions would be illegal under antitrust laws as forcing companies to pay workers more than what a free market dictates inevitably increases prices.
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The only reason labor unions are legal is that certain unions have outsized political clout, in a perfect world labor unions would be illegal under antitrust laws as forcing companies to pay workers more than what a free market dictates inevitably increases prices.
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is this the path we want to take?
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In a perfect world labor unions would be illegal is not a market-based opposition.
> In a perfect world labor unions would be illegal is not a market-based opposition. Why not? It's perfectly reasonable to say in a perfect world, X would be illegal if you think that X is harmful enough for the state to act. I bet there are things you wish the state would ban. You don't have to agree with the OP, but he's not expressing anything wacky or bizarre. He just doesn't see unionization as some kind of unqu…
It's just that we're not obliged to listen, and we're also free to express our opinion with the downvote button.
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Am I committing thought crimes?
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Your assumption of "free markets" is a mythical one.
Regardless, labor unions would be a feature of any conceptualization of free markets I’ve ever heard of. In what sense is cooperation and organization not compatible with a free market?
Good for them. As for the tech workers, they need something like a guild with membership fees and staff lawyers that would sue the state for allowing binding arbitration and non compete agreements (i.e. do what California did).
they need something like a guild with membership fees and staff lawyers that would sue the state for allowing binding arbitration and non compete agreements Serious question: How is this kind of a guild different from a union in your view?
Expect google to start "optimizing" the cafeteria soon enough.