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Re:Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized by nprz on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @02:50PM (#21924122)
Doesn't the practice of minimum wage and labor rights also allow the worker to "extract rents above those the market would ordinarily bear"? Do those practices make society as a whole worse off?
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Re:Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized by komali2 on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @03:06PM (#21924261)
The libertarian or whatever this person identifies as will claim yes, which kind of goes to show that we should reject these anti-human economic philosophies, never mind the fact that they're economically unsound anyway.
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