Re:Chomsky on having a job (“living in a totalitarian system”)
by peisistratos on Monday March 25, 2019 @01:12PM
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> competition between companies to provide good working conditions and pay in a free labor market
Sure - but we could live in an alternative universe where Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, and all the other billionaires conspired to drive down their workers salaries. Where Eric Schmidt sent e-mails instructing they be deleted as they pointed to an illegal cabal crushing wage competition between companies.
Of course - this alternative universe to yours is the one we actually do live in.
Sure - but we could live in an alternative universe where Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, and all the other billionaires conspired to drive down their workers salaries. Where Eric Schmidt sent e-mails instructing they be deleted as they pointed to an illegal cabal crushing wage competition between companies.
Of course - this alternative universe to yours is the one we actually do live in.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/jobs-and-schmidts-gentleme...