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Because the power dynamic is asymmetric.

That said, tools like collective bargaining and unionization can bring it closer to the market ideal - workers acknowledging and taking advantage of their importance to the business to the same extent as the employer does.

In practice, many external if not anti-free-market factors have made that grouping harder to do.




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