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Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars by einpoklum on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:28AM (#26411540)
Also strong independent labor unions.
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Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars by dmos62 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @11:19AM (#26412830)
Why on earth would anyone downvote this?
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Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars by jason0597 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @11:29AM (#26412961)
I think HN has been recently overtaken by a lot of very neoliberal people who preach unregulated capitalism very hard.
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Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars by dmos62 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @11:35AM (#26413026)
A world where basic income isn't downvoted, but strong trade unions or anti-trust laws are is a weird one.
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Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars by morei on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @03:47PM (#26415998)
Unions definitely have their upsides, but also some rather strong downsides (c.f. most police unions).

Basic income has many of the same upsides, but the downsides are mostly about the dollar cost.

It's not unreasonable that some people prefer to pay (eg) higher taxes than suffer various forms of corruption.

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Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars by solveit on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:16AM (#26421593)
We think unions and laws tend to distort markets much more than honest straight cash transfers.
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Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars by anonuser123456 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @09:12PM (#26431514)
UBI doesn’t mess with the price system and ruin market efficiency. Unions totally screw it up.

I will take UBI or negative income tax every day of the week over unions.

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Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars by brigandish on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:21PM (#26432173)
As someone of a more libertarian bent myself, I find the opposition to unions slightly puzzling. It's clear the disdain is driven by opposition to socialism, as so many unions are subverted by socialists and their influence, but as a general idea they are perfectly acceptable if not ideal and should be championed - free association, individuals coming together to use their bargaining power to provide corrective balance to a part of the market suffering from power and information asymmetry… there's so many good things about unions.

In fact, if they were championed by - shall we call them economic liberals? - then they might be a damned sight harder to subvert and be a whole lot more effective and palatable. I know Sweden has strong unions and workers on boards (something I learnt from the very readable though still arguable book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism[1]), with restricted power (the employees can never become a majority in any vote on the board) and it seems to me to be an obviously good idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_Things_They_Don%27t_Tell_Yo...

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Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars by bscphil on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:21PM (#26418478)
It's not particularly recent or even surprising, this is basically a SV startup forum after all. Or at least directly adjacent to one.
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