All that talk about unions misses one much more systemic point. It's that linking social benefits to individual employment relationships is a bad idea. It creates dependencies that make the system inflexible. It reduces worker mobility. It creates long term obligations that individual companies, not matter how large, can never garantee.
It's a paternalistic model that puts companies in the position of families or states that care for people based not on merit but on human needs and dignity. Both are important but mixing them creates a conflict of interest.
Money is flexible. Use money to pay people for work. Not health plans and pensions, not stock options, just money and people can go and buy all of the former. Keep things simple.
It's a paternalistic model that puts companies in the position of families or states that care for people based not on merit but on human needs and dignity. Both are important but mixing them creates a conflict of interest.
Money is flexible. Use money to pay people for work. Not health plans and pensions, not stock options, just money and people can go and buy all of the former. Keep things simple.