Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise
by smsm42 on Monday April 10, 2017 @04:32PM
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You are doing a wrong comparison. To see if factor X has an influence, you need to compare two similar situations differing only in factor X and see the outcome, not compare two outcomes from different situations both not having factor X and conclude since there's a difference factor X does not matter.
So, if a unionized company in SF with higher salaries would be consistently hiring more people than essentially similar company with no unions and lower salaries, in the same environment - that might be a counter-example or at least a beginning of one (one still needs to consider the confounders - maybe CEO of the former one is a genius and of the second one is an idiot and had run the company into the ground, and that explains hiring differences).
Of course in SF and Jackson salaries are different - those are different markets. That has nothing to do with my argument.
> things are a lot more complex and unions don't "kill jobs".
Making a claim is not proving it. I've provided an argument why I think they do. If you want to argue against it, the least you could do is providing your own counter-argument. And no, "it's complicated" does not count as one. You have to point out which part of the complication, in your opinion at least, makes the conclusion wrong.
So, if a unionized company in SF with higher salaries would be consistently hiring more people than essentially similar company with no unions and lower salaries, in the same environment - that might be a counter-example or at least a beginning of one (one still needs to consider the confounders - maybe CEO of the former one is a genius and of the second one is an idiot and had run the company into the ground, and that explains hiring differences).
Of course in SF and Jackson salaries are different - those are different markets. That has nothing to do with my argument.
> things are a lot more complex and unions don't "kill jobs".
Making a claim is not proving it. I've provided an argument why I think they do. If you want to argue against it, the least you could do is providing your own counter-argument. And no, "it's complicated" does not count as one. You have to point out which part of the complication, in your opinion at least, makes the conclusion wrong.