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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by wavefunction on Sunday March 23, 2014 @06:19PM (#7455483)
This is by definition not the free market. You need to go back to remedial free market school. I suggest one course of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (pay attention to Book 2, Chapter 2 especially) to start.

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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by emcfarlane on Sunday March 23, 2014 @06:40PM (#7455567)
Employees have to think of themselves as an asset with their employer aiming to minimize costs. Salaries are a negotiation with risk involved. It is a free market, with many competing companies aiming to reduce costs. Does a free market mean all companies can't communicate? The companies are still free to hire whoever they want. People are still free to work for whoever they want.

Thanks for the book suggestion, please feel free to quote more books without debating my comments.

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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by camus2 on Sunday March 23, 2014 @06:44PM (#7455578)
> with many competing companies

obviously these companies were not competiting hiring engineers...

> People are still free to work for whoever they want.

whatever.

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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by emcfarlane on Sunday March 23, 2014 @07:16PM (#7455703)
> obviously these companies were not competiting hiring engineers... ... They are competing for engineers! Why would they make these agreements? To benefit the company. Benefit/cost analysis.
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