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Needing to find a new job in your lucrative industry after a nice golden goodbye from your previous one is not equivalent to a breast ripper.



You treat social constructs as immutable part of the universe like rocks and trees.

If we lived in 1500's you'd replace the word 'company' with 'medieval lord'.

Betraying you medieval lord for a competitor was treason, with equivalent of a breast ripper being employed.


> You treat social constructs as immutable part of the universe like rocks and trees.

Fair point.

> If we lived in 1500's you'd replace the word 'company' with 'medieval lord'.

In some ways I see the equivalence because they both have power but luckily our justice system has evolved since then and there are more checks on power. We've also evolved from feudalism to whatever kind of capitalism we're in now. I think capitalism is a long way from perfect because it often doesn't align with our internal belief systems, partly because nobody has a complete view of the situation (even the CEO who cannot see the future) so our belief systems act on incomplete information and partly because there are perhaps not enough rules baked in to insert moralistic behaviour into it.

I don't think that turning companies into social security is a good way forward. Just have social security. Don't loose sight that if your economy isn't competitive in the world then all this becomes moot because you all loose.




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