On Mon, Oct 22, at 04:58PM, Julian Assange wrote: | This years Nobel for Economics won by George A. Akerlof, A. Michael | Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz "for their analysis of markets with | assymetric information" is typical. The Nobel priye was won by people who published ideas that nobel laureate FA Hayek published in the 30's. | To counter this sort of assymetry. Employees naturally start trying | to collectivise to increase their information processing and | bargaining power. That's right. UNIONS Declan. Those devious entities | that first world companies and governments have had a hand in | suppressing all over the third world by curtailing freedom of | association, speech and other basic political rights we take for | granted. And yet, if in a union, I am posed a similar question as the sweatshop worker. Do I dare go against the union and risk being a pariah, or do i simply follow the herd and fuck over the businessman whose hand feeds me? There is only asymetry if you presume the employee to be ignorant, or uneducated or plain outright stupid. If the exchange is totally voluntary, the owner will present a wage that the employee may or may not accept along with terms and conditions, which the employee is also free to accept or decline. Granted, in the world of unskilled labor, this doesnt seem as evident, but that goes back around the circle on why the work is unskilled and why the worker is there. Life handed him a shittier set of choices than the guy whose hobby was network security and has more bargaining power at the negotiation table with an employer. I firmly disagree with the suppression of unions, but by that same token I firmly disagree that an employer should be mandated to keep an employee who is a part of a union. It is the employees choice to unioniye, it should sure as hell be the employers choice to say as Tim so galantly put it "Fuck Off!". -- Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer --On the eve of Britain's entry into World War II: "If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.