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Re:Game Workers Unite by giantsloth on Friday March 23, 2018 @06:38PM (#16663241)
All organizations are reactionary and necessarily settle on the state of the world at the current moment. This is an extremely bizarre line of logic you are using.

There is always version lock in at some point, and NO workers like change if it's going to cause them to lose their livelihood. This has nothing to do with unions.

Why do you care more about protecting artificial constructs like companies at the expense of power given to people building the products?

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Re:Game Workers Unite by humanrebar on Friday March 23, 2018 @09:36PM (#16664217)
I honestly don't care about companies. But I don't care about union bosses either. Unions do just as poor a job as employers in preparing workers for tectonic shifts in employment patterns.

For example, when the ACA passed, unions were more concerned with their constituency and their carve outs than with decoupling employment from healthcare. Same story for all the business interests.

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Re:Game Workers Unite by ovao on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:04PM (#16663425)
A company is comprised of many parts — including its employees. Calling it an artificial construct may be legally and semantically valid, but it’s also dismissive to the reality that any company is more than just the ink on its articles of incorporation (or whatever).

The argument is much more nuanced than you’ve proposed.

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