Re:Facebook Refused No-Poaching Agreement With Google
by atmosx on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @04:05AM
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Excellent points :-)
Re:Facebook Refused No-Poaching Agreement With Google
by vishnugupta on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @04:43AM
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Thank you :). You made the day for a noob HNer!
This has resulted in industries being shut down at a massive scale in US where labor costs are higher and moved to a country where labor is cheap (China, India and so on) and also less regulated ("flexible" is the word used). As a bonus companies get to flout just about every environmental regulation which are non-existent in third world countries (think Bangladesh's textile manufacturing plants producing for luxury brands).
The net result of this combination of "free capital movement + restricted labor movement" is reduced wages across nations and industries. And over the time you end up having no skilled labor in a company's nation of incorporation (Apple?).
The supreme irony I see here is that the advocates of "free market" for capital tend to advance amazingly absurd arguments when it comes to having a similar free market for labor.
I highly recommend watching this talk by Noam Chomsky titled "Free Markets?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY