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Re:You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem by fsckboy on Monday July 14, 2025 @01:43PM (#44563033)
I just took economics, this is what is taught at any school with a serious economics program. (it's non-serious, though still can be good, if calculus is not a prerequisite)
Re:You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem by LtWorf on Monday July 14, 2025 @06:50PM (#44566225)
The fact that economists disagree all the time is due to economics laws being just opinions.
Re:You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem by jacob_a_dev on Monday July 28, 2025 @10:39AM (#44711331)
i also took a few econ classes in college, enjoyed it a lot.

Some other ramblings from me.

Management at companies generally dont want to unionize because it generally makes the company less nimble/competitive (its obvious 99% management doesnt want to pay more for labor so i dont feel need to argue that). So yes, if u are lucky enough to be in the union when it gets created, your benifits/salary is negotiated which is cool, less variability in your future, but youll only get paid if your business manages to continue to out compete competitors.

A union example of this i had was installing robots in factories (most of the factories were unionized) (to replace some transportation of goods inside giant factories). My team and I would work with factory management/engineers to come up with plan to automate some process. Before trying to impliment it, we would need to give our plans to a union rep for approval/feedback (who wasnt an engineer). So that factory's competitors didnt have to wait for an additional approval, we would need to wait for a non technical persons feedback to BEGIN a project, your competitor might be finished with project before union approval is done.

Common story of the american factory. Company unionizes, slowly becomes less competitive, a while later goes out of business. This is why so many companies resist (legally) unionization, as in some industries it means certain death.