IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to Europe@lemmy.ml · 6 days ago[Video] Uber Eats delivery workers in France get together and collectively refuse lowball jobs to force up the price in the algorithmi.imgur.comvideomessage-square80linkfedilinkarrow-up1376arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1375arrow-down1video[Video] Uber Eats delivery workers in France get together and collectively refuse lowball jobs to force up the price in the algorithmi.imgur.comIndustryStandard@lemmy.world to Europe@lemmy.ml · 6 days agomessage-square80linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejumping redditor [they/them]@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down21·6 days agoI wonder if anti monopoly laws would apply to those independent contractors?
minus-squarejumping redditor [they/them]@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down33·5 days agowhere is the boundary between a sufficiently powerful union and a monopoly on labor?
minus-squareKazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up26·5 days agoA monopoly on labour is not a thing, because labour is not a resource that is controllable by anyone in that way. (Excepting slavery and feudalism)
minus-squarejumping redditor [they/them]@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down23·5 days agoa sufficiently broad non-compete can absolutely control labour supply, unless /until it is deemed unlawful
minus-squareHacksaw@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up19·5 days agoJumping Redditor living in a world where capital has all the power and labour is effectively crippled: “what if labour hypothetically somehow goes too far and becomes the real enemy… Yeah that would be bad… Best keep things like this just in case”
minus-squareLenin's Dumbbell @lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up17·5 days agoA monopoly on labour? Lmfao That would unironically be the most based thing ever, because all labour would become class conscious and form a monopoly. Capitalists can get fucked
minus-squarekestrel7_7@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·5 days agoLet me clear this up for you. Workers are people and the hours of their lives are not a commodity like bushels of wheat. A democratically-operated “monopoly” on labor would be a democratically-operated society, not a cartel akin to a commodity monopoly.
minus-squarejumping redditor [they/them]@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·5 days agoa cartel can be democratic
minus-squarelad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoI don’t think that happened since medieval age, if ever
minus-squarebountygiver [any]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoyou know what is an attempt at monopolizing labour? AI subscriptions, if they did achieve what they claim to be.
minus-squareJubJubBird@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·5 days agoWhat they are doing probably falls under anti cartell law rather than anti monopoly
I wonder if anti monopoly laws would apply to those independent contractors?
This is just unionising
where is the boundary between a sufficiently powerful union and a monopoly on labor?
A monopoly on labour is not a thing, because labour is not a resource that is controllable by anyone in that way. (Excepting slavery and feudalism)
a sufficiently broad non-compete can absolutely control labour supply, unless /until it is deemed unlawful
Jumping Redditor living in a world where capital has all the power and labour is effectively crippled: “what if labour hypothetically somehow goes too far and becomes the real enemy… Yeah that would be bad… Best keep things like this just in case”
Nah
A monopoly on labour? Lmfao
That would unironically be the most based thing ever, because all labour would become class conscious and form a monopoly. Capitalists can get fucked
Let me clear this up for you. Workers are people and the hours of their lives are not a commodity like bushels of wheat.
A democratically-operated “monopoly” on labor would be a democratically-operated society, not a cartel akin to a commodity monopoly.
a cartel can be democratic
I don’t think that happened since medieval age, if ever
Learn what collective means.
you know what is an attempt at monopolizing labour? AI subscriptions, if they did achieve what they claim to be.
What they are doing probably falls under anti cartell law rather than anti monopoly