Microsoft Bug Testers Unionized, Then They Were Dismissed

Re:Microsoft Bug Testers Unionized, Then They Were Dismissed by cpeterso on Thursday August 23, 2018 @05:23PM (#17830795)

Thought experiment: what if the US government limited companies to a maximum number of employees, say 5000?

There would be new inefficiencies, but it might decrease the possibility or impact of monopolies and encourage competition. There would be a lot more specialized contractor companies. How much of, say, Google's search service or Microsoft Windows could be maintained or developed with just 5000 people?

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Re:Microsoft Bug Testers Unionized, Then They Were Dismissed by true_religion on Thursday August 23, 2018 @07:29PM (#17831458)

We would end up with massive conglomerates who owned 500+ companies of 4999 people, and if that didn't work you'd just get simple collusion where everyone knows company A and B are owned by the same person so they try to cooperate even without being explicitly ordered to.

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Re:Microsoft Bug Testers Unionized, Then They Were Dismissed by wgerard on Thursday August 23, 2018 @07:57PM (#17831641)

It would likely just encourage convoluted corporate structures that would function more-or-less equivalently to the ones we have today.

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Re:Microsoft Bug Testers Unionized, Then They Were Dismissed by xeromal on Thursday August 23, 2018 @05:46PM (#17830944)

There would be 5000 car manufacturers

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