Re:Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Mar...
by pyreticRitual on Thursday September 14, 2023 @09:08AM
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Capital will always have information asymmetry.
There’s also the fact that the worst case scenario for a capitalist is that they become an employee. The worst case for an employee is they end up homeless.
Re:Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Mar...
by lotsofpulp on Thursday September 14, 2023 @09:12AM
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A “capitalist” can also become homeless. Small business owners have to secure loans with personal assets and bad bets / legal liabilities are abound.
Established business shareholders probably do not have this problem.
Re:Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Mar...
by pyreticRitual on Thursday September 14, 2023 @09:13AM
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If they fail at being an employee, yes.
and a reactionary union isn't really the way to fix "capital winning". Because the idea that capital "wins" is flawed imho. It's not that capital is winning, it's that capital is the part of the equation which has bargaining power.
The reason for that is hard to say, but i am guessing that most workers are not really unique or special enough to warrant having them the same bargaining power as capital. After all, capital is required to establish the job in the first place.
Forcing a union, to prevent capital from "winning" merely makes capital less effective at providing their function - investment and growth of the economy. This makes capital leave.