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Re:Corporate Spies Are Watching Organized Labor by glogla on Sunday December 01, 2019 @10:49AM (#21675984)
Because they want to be able to defend themselves from you and people like you (who own the means of living) from abusing and exploiting them.

Why do you mind if they have a say? If you don't plan on abusing and exploiting them, there's no harm, right?

EDIT: to put it into words I would think someone like you might understand better (power and money instead of empathy and solidarity) - because if you don't let them have a say, and exploit them, you might end up in a gulag, on guillotine or in wherever mass grave Mao put landlords.

Re:Corporate Spies Are Watching Organized Labor by dang on Sunday December 01, 2019 @04:55PM (#21678059)
Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological flamewars. Once a thread gets to the gulags it's never coming back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Corporate Spies Are Watching Organized Labor by dang on Sunday December 01, 2019 @04:54PM (#21678053)
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological or political flamewar. Let alone personal attacks.

We've had to ask you repeatedly in the past not to break the site guidelines. Would you please review them and stick to the rules when posting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Corporate Spies Are Watching Organized Labor by paulryanrogers on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:29AM (#21676174)
> I'm paying them, if they don't want to be exploited by me don't accept my money.

If there is healthy competition among employers then workers have a real choice. If not then declining your money could mean: live destitute or starve.

As companies consolidate and collude (intentionally or subconsciously) even cushy office workers may face exploitation.

Re:Corporate Spies Are Watching Organized Labor by whatawaste on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:13AM (#21676090)
If you don’t want to be on the receiving end of violence, how about not exploiting people?
Re:Corporate Spies Are Watching Organized Labor by friedman23 on Sunday December 01, 2019 @03:37PM (#21677651)
So let's have a thought experiment.

I own a sewing machine and I choose to sew clothes on it myself then sell it. Am I exploiting myself?

I own a sewing machine and I choose to not hire anybody to operate it and it sits unused. Someone that could operate it is sitting unemployed and unable to eat even though I could hire them. Am I exploiting someone?

I own a sewing machine and offer someone an amount of money if they operate it and produce the clothing I ask them to produce. Am I exploiting them?

I'm glad fringe maniacs that consider employment exploitation aren't taken seriously.

Re:Corporate Spies Are Watching Organized Labor by glogla on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:14AM (#21676104)
> It always comes down to violence with you people.

As it should. If they don't accept your power, they starve (or not get healthcare if we're talking about contemporary USA).

How is that any less violent? Because when you kill someone by starvation it's less bloody? Your kind are already using violence against us, you're just good at not caring about others or lying to yourself.