Greg Rosalski
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 1 Jul
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So a third or more of American workers end up signing these.
A third?
Yeah.
And by the way, sometimes it's argued that it's because to protect trade secrets.
But then, like, Jimmy John's sandwich chain.
Summer camp in Massachusetts, the examples go on, but it's basically a way to reduce competition for workers.
What you're saying about the ways in which monopsony shows up, like, surely we're not all stuck on a spaceship with a single employer controlling our entire life.
And what your research has shown is like, aren't we, though, in just littler ways?
That's right.
So jobs are sticky.
Quitting is harder.
And as a result, our working conditions and job quality are only partially determined by a well-functioning market force.
So yes, there's aspects of exactly what doesn't work in a very dramatic way in Alien does afflict us in smaller but important ways.
And the good news is we have ways of fixing or improving those more so than in the movie, perhaps.
Yeah, Aaron says in the real world, we have ways to push back against monopsony power.
Things like minimum wage laws, antitrust enforcement, and labor unions that fight for worker interests.
And this is basically what Aaron's book is about.
He says the erosion of those counterforces is a big reason we've seen a stagnation of worker pay and a rise in inequality.
That's in the real world, of course.
But Aaron says he supposes those things would have helped in the movie Alien, too.
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