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Competition usually turns into collusion and consolidation.


Indeed, even in our beloved tech industry, the biggest employers have absolutely colluded to keep workers' wages down:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/apple-goo...

And still people trust management...


You can distrust both management and unions.


I find it weird that nobody is seeing this in tech.

The automovotive market used to have garage based startups a long time ago. It used to have fierce competition and workers could get pay raises without unions.

Then gradually everything fell under 3 big companies, workers fought the concentration of market power by unionizing (and lost) and for decades there was just the big 3.

It's not even a question of if or even who tech will consolidate under any more - it will be someone who is currwently a household name. It is when.

It's coming.


You are saying that unions don't actually help?


No they clearly would.




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