The optimal labor market condition for corporations is a social safety net strong enough to fully undermine the case for unions but weak enough that workers are easy to fire but reluctant to quit over anything.
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It’s a fragile equilibrium. I suspect the habitable Goldilocks zone for corporations to exist at all is quite narrow. They’ve probably gotten too strong.
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Without other imperatives, corporations prefer employee precarity (via private healthcare in US primarily) to any public safety net. This preference for serfs seems worse than any inefficiency introduced into the labor market by collective bargaining.
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So sad that coercion drives employment strategy. How about creating conditions where people want to work for you. That’s the future



