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Originally Posted by Mayo
When does the disparity in negotiating position ever favor the employee here in libertarian world?
I also always enjoy the "my ideas are not very popular, therefore everyone else must be dumb" defense.
The majority is too dumb to ever think of anything other than the status quo. There are plenty of smart people who disagree (although they typically don't favor the status quo, either). I have more respect for hard core communists than the typical soccer mom "yay my team" voter. I guarantee they have thought about the issues more. There are dumb libertarians too "I heard they want to legalize weed maaaan, sweeeet!".
The way the disparity goes toward the employee happens when the employee is highly skilled and not easy to replace. For example, look at top players in any professional sports league. Look at highly skilled technical geniuses. They have tons of leverage. Even moderately skilled technical employees get huge salary increases when they are about to leave sometimes. The less skill you have and more easily replaceable you are, the less leverage you have.
As for fly's comment, there's nothing destined about it. There is a time and place for everything. Now is not the time to try to get widespread support. There needs to be a lot more people who need to understand things strongly. Getting a critical mass is necessary first. But how it will happen is based on showing people it works. Most people cannot believe something until they see it in action. Once they actually see something, then they are more willing to look. That is the time to move for widespread support. Having a thin-based public support as the flavor of the month is not a successful long-term proposition. It's just something that will get co-opted.