alt Hacker NewsWhat's keeping any one of these Id software developers from accepting a competing job offer elsewhere?
Yes, there are scenarios where employees are stripped of agency. E.g a factory owner taking and holding foreign worker's passports. But if you're going to allege that something is preventing these works from accepting competing offers, you have to offer evidence for that claim.
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Remember when the tech companies got caught making deals not to poach each other's employees?
Maybe they can just start their own company. Well, you can't for the existing players to peer traffic with you if you need heavy network access.
Corporations have been caught colluding to suppress wages by refusing to hire anyone working for one of the other companies.
How many of these collusions have not been brought to light?
WHat's keeping a company from providing fair wages, fair labor practices such that unions are unnecessary?
EDIT: I guess you can just downvote, sure, but why not engage?
> What's keeping any one of these Id software developers from accepting a competing job offer elsewhere?
* Employer-bound health insurance in the US
* Industry blacklists to exclude uppity employees and union members
* Noncompetes and NDAs
* Extremely localized jobs and an ever-shrinking number of larger and larger conglomerates as employers