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Re:Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay... by ericd on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @06:36AM (#30917326)
Better than unions would just be increasing labor scarcity at the low end of skills. Protectionism in the form of a carbon tax with border adjustment would help quite a bit, I think.
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Re:Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay... by jamincan on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @08:00AM (#30917896)
If my country (Canada) is anything to go by, instead of allowing market forces to increase low wages, they just change the rules to temporarily import workers instead.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ottawa-loos...

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Re:Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay... by Nasrudith on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:38PM (#30936563)
Artificial scarcity is a terrible way to generate wealth, and a carbon tax would disappoint given economies of scale in shipping are because per kilogram they are overwhelmingly efficient.
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