I agree with this but have to add, not everyone CAN jump ship, because we don't have single-payer or universal healthcare, some people HAVE to keep working their shitty job no matter what or risk losing healthcare, so in that essence they're slaves.
Ideas of gbi, employee-pegged ceo pay, and universal healthcare all benefit worker mobility which will also keep corporations in check even more and 'temper' capitalism, it's not socialism --it's tempered capitalism instead of runaway crony capitalism that we'd like to see implemented.
Well just like that whole paul graham vs the founder of cloudflare last week, where PG said that the founders of airbnb were broke and that's why they started, and the cloudflare guy called him out on it mentioning they didn't have totally no support and most founders have some support backup in case things get super hard that it's really hard to be 1 paycheck from the curb and start anything, or live on the street and start a software business. A lot of people went to backup PG, but then there were a lot to side w/ Matthew Prince as well.
I think it's both ways, I mean there's both sides of the political spectrum on HN, you've got your progressives and Trump supporters, and everything in between. A lot of people aspire to be CEO here, and would like to know they can set their own rates and feel that someday they'll be the next Elon Musk though for 90% reading this that's highly unlikely they might make it to 1% of his success if they're super lucky.
Ideas of gbi, employee-pegged ceo pay, and universal healthcare all benefit worker mobility which will also keep corporations in check even more and 'temper' capitalism, it's not socialism --it's tempered capitalism instead of runaway crony capitalism that we'd like to see implemented.