Tom Metro wrote:
| Mark Woodward wrote:
| > ...the union in my view was a positive force for his industry.
|
| I think capitalism is at its best when you hit upon the right set of
| rules that result in self-regulating systems. From an abstract, academic
| perspective, the aspect of unions that feels wrong is that they are
| effectively a monopoly for labor.
|
| In essence (but not really) a union is an employee owned corporation
| whose sole service is outsourced labor. In an idealized market, there
| should be multiple labor corporations for any given type of labor, not
| only one.
Hey, I know! We could call these labor corporations "contracting" or
"consulting" or "engineering" companies, depending on how they deal
with their client corporations. Why didn't anyone ever think of this
concept before?
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<:#/> John Chambers
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