Re:Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts
by thwayunion on Monday March 20, 2023 @01:40PM
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Modern markets are obviously legal abstractions.
Even the labor market is held up with elaborate legal structures; e.g.,
1. stopping me from squatting in my employer's office while I start a new company or
2. copying my employer's codebase, or
3. exfiltrating my employer's customer and pricing lists, or
4. holding two jobs at competing companies at the same time, or
5. shorting my employer's stock then actively sabotaging the company.
Labor markets can't exist without lots of strong legal guardrails, and in the case of tech those property rights and contractual obligations are highly fictional and unnatural. Nothing like early civilized man bartering at the bazaar.
The amount of propaganda/brainwashing required to believe that something like a modern equity or labor market is a naturally occurring phenomenon... oof.
Even the labor market is held up with elaborate legal structures; e.g.,
1. stopping me from squatting in my employer's office while I start a new company or
2. copying my employer's codebase, or
3. exfiltrating my employer's customer and pricing lists, or
4. holding two jobs at competing companies at the same time, or
5. shorting my employer's stock then actively sabotaging the company.
Labor markets can't exist without lots of strong legal guardrails, and in the case of tech those property rights and contractual obligations are highly fictional and unnatural. Nothing like early civilized man bartering at the bazaar.
The amount of propaganda/brainwashing required to believe that something like a modern equity or labor market is a naturally occurring phenomenon... oof.