Re:PG: “Any industry that still has unions has potential ene...
by e12e on Sunday November 08, 2015 @07:30PM
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>> What if we paid workers meaningful amounts of equity?
> How would you provide equity for public school teachers?
I don't subscribe to the neo-liberal idea of conflating money with value (or equivalently: to measure efficiency in terms of money). But one could theoretically ban salaried employment[1,2]. And structure public services as employee-owned corpration that bid on service contracts. On might create a limited monopoly, by requiring a license to eg: run public education. And the same could be done for police, prisons, fire departments, special forces, security services... Again, I don't think this is a good idea, and we do this to a certain extent already.
> How would you provide equity for public school teachers?
I don't subscribe to the neo-liberal idea of conflating money with value (or equivalently: to measure efficiency in terms of money). But one could theoretically ban salaried employment[1,2]. And structure public services as employee-owned corpration that bid on service contracts. On might create a limited monopoly, by requiring a license to eg: run public education. And the same could be done for police, prisons, fire departments, special forces, security services... Again, I don't think this is a good idea, and we do this to a certain extent already.
[1] https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/knights-of-labor-jim-crow...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery