Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized

Re:Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized by ajtulloch on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:11AM (#21978295)

The framing of this is so incredibly (almost humorously) ideological. Look at what you've implicitly set up:

* the State, contracts, corporations, right-to-work law, at-will employment law, etc - all good, natural parts of the market.

* employee unions - bad, unnatural, rent-seeking, deviations from the market.

It's untenable.

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Re:Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized by quotemstr on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @11:17AM (#21981344)

Do you have an argument other than that I've called bad things bad? Rent seeking is discouraged in economic policy for a reason (a reason I mentioned above), not because economists dislike how the word "rent" sounds or some other arbitrary reason.

> It's untenable

It's quite tenable.

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