That’s such an infantile understanding of how things work. The reality is that different jobs offer similar conditions because there is no reason for one job to offer vastly better conditions than another. You don’t seem to understand that businesses are operated for profit, and employee benefits such as compensation, vacation time, and so on all cost money. In fact that’s the biggest expense for the business.
Therefore, it is an explicit goal for business to cut these benefits as much as possible. The baseline for benefits is what the state of unemployment is like. The conditions a job offers only have to be better than the conditions of being unemployed.
For high skill jobs where demand outstrips supply the workers are able to negotiate better conditions. However, we’re now seeing companies trying to bring down the cost of tech workers as we speak by doing mass layoffs and saturating the market. The companies are actively building a reserve army of labour. Even smug liberals such as yourself might find themselves on the receiving end of that.
The idiocy of your argument becomes very clear when we look at the horrific conditions people work in at Amazon fulfillment centres. These people aren’t choosing to suffer and to piss in bottles because they can’t take a bathroom break. They suffer because those are the best conditions available to them, and starving under a bridge would be even worse than that.
In practice, the worker selling their labour has a false choice of which master will own him and extract labour from him. It is absolutely stunning that this is difficult to understand for some people.
“Free market” capitalism
The freer the market the greater the human tragedy.
The freer the market the freer the people…
…looks at fine print on contract…
That’s such an infantile understanding of how things work. The reality is that different jobs offer similar conditions because there is no reason for one job to offer vastly better conditions than another. You don’t seem to understand that businesses are operated for profit, and employee benefits such as compensation, vacation time, and so on all cost money. In fact that’s the biggest expense for the business.
Therefore, it is an explicit goal for business to cut these benefits as much as possible. The baseline for benefits is what the state of unemployment is like. The conditions a job offers only have to be better than the conditions of being unemployed.
For high skill jobs where demand outstrips supply the workers are able to negotiate better conditions. However, we’re now seeing companies trying to bring down the cost of tech workers as we speak by doing mass layoffs and saturating the market. The companies are actively building a reserve army of labour. Even smug liberals such as yourself might find themselves on the receiving end of that.
The idiocy of your argument becomes very clear when we look at the horrific conditions people work in at Amazon fulfillment centres. These people aren’t choosing to suffer and to piss in bottles because they can’t take a bathroom break. They suffer because those are the best conditions available to them, and starving under a bridge would be even worse than that.
In practice, the worker selling their labour has a false choice of which master will own him and extract labour from him. It is absolutely stunning that this is difficult to understand for some people.