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Without the employees, there would also be no company. You cannot work at the company without being forced to generate money for shareholders. You also cannot at the company without generating money for the union (if membership is compulsory). Once again, why is one bad and the other one good? Why is one a “mafia boss” and the other legitimate? It’s identical compulsion either way.


> Without the employees, there would also be no company.

This is incorrect. A company is more than the employees. See holding companies or any of the many companies that have gone through mass layoffs/restructuring.

> You cannot work at the company without being forced to generate money for shareholders.

I’m not forced, the whole point of wanting to work for a company is to enter into a mutually beneficial agreement where you make them money and get money in return.

> You also cannot at the company without generating money for the union

This is a third party that has no business interfering with the agreement I’m trying to enter into with a company to sell it my labor.

> It’s identical compulsion either way.

I don’t think you know what “compulsion” means. One of the things is voluntary, one is not.




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