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Like any market, supply and demand does determine price.
Agreed. And with today’s huge population, the supply is so huge that it depresses everybody’s wages. The internet only makes it worse with how easy it is to apply to hundreds of jobs.
The end result is that the average person has no control over wages.
Personally I don’t care when people work
And that’s you, which is great. But most places aren’t like that and instead control it under threat of termination.
That’s not anyone having control over the other party
I think we have a difference of opinion over what constitutes control.
Everything’s on the table in a negotiation. You just need to recognize it as a negotiation, and learn to negotiate well.
You can’t have negotiation without leverage, and you can’t have leverage when the market is oversupplied.
Many jobs just require you to get a certain amount of work done.
This is pretty much the same issue as above. So I’ll move on.
we wouldn’t want a business to be democratic any more than we’d want our country to be.
You might not want our country to be democratic, but the vast majority of people do.
A democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to eat for supper.
A democracy is the way in which the social contract is maintained. The alternative is the wolves just slaughtering the lambs. In reality, there are 10 lambs for every one wolf.
it’s extremely hard to find someone qualified to do the job well
That’s because today’s corporations are bloated. If everything was small to medium business it wouldn’t be a problem.
I’m lost as to your overall point about how money is distributed.
I’m talking about the percentage cut of what each person gets, and how CEOs get overpaid.
Why do my mailings from Team DeSantis keep going to spam, no matter how many times I click “not spam”?)
As somebody who works in tech, I can tell you the answer is likely just that they send our so many emails that it trigger’s your email host’s spam filters. It’s often a case of quantity instead of content. Either that or a really stupid bug. The whole field of tech is littered with them.
Agreed. And with today’s huge population, the supply is so huge that it depresses everybody’s wages. The internet only makes it worse with how easy it is to apply to hundreds of jobs.
The end result is that the average person has no control over wages.
And that’s you, which is great. But most places aren’t like that and instead control it under threat of termination.
I think we have a difference of opinion over what constitutes control.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/control
I’m more or less using definition 1a
You can’t have negotiation without leverage, and you can’t have leverage when the market is oversupplied.
This is pretty much the same issue as above. So I’ll move on.
You might not want our country to be democratic, but the vast majority of people do.
A democracy is the way in which the social contract is maintained. The alternative is the wolves just slaughtering the lambs. In reality, there are 10 lambs for every one wolf.
That’s because today’s corporations are bloated. If everything was small to medium business it wouldn’t be a problem.
I’m talking about the percentage cut of what each person gets, and how CEOs get overpaid.
https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2020/
It absolutely is. If you control what media people consume, you control what they think, and that is power.
Here is an example of the Sinclair stations using that power:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE
I’ll leave you with this:
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/05/918520692/facebook-keeps-data-secret-letting-conservative-bias-claims-persist
As somebody who works in tech, I can tell you the answer is likely just that they send our so many emails that it trigger’s your email host’s spam filters. It’s often a case of quantity instead of content. Either that or a really stupid bug. The whole field of tech is littered with them.