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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You have a bit of a contradiction going here, I think... It's hard to say on one hand that doctors should be exposed to marketplace forces that adversely impact them, but cab drivers and union workers should be protected from things like Uber. I'm with you on liberally allowing immigrant docs to practice here, but I think the same open policy should allow innovations like Uber to savage license-leveraging schemes used by cabbies, barbers, interior designers, lawyers, accountants, brokers, etc.
I love the "go along to get along" comment. On that, brother, we could never be more aligned. But I don't think that applies solely to law firms. I see that everywhere. And it's created a really stagnant status quo in the country. A kid should want to innovate and leave the world with some novel contribution, not play the game so he can get an upper middle class salary, 401K, and cushy management position at the cracker factory.
But, considering B-schools are now teaching more and more classes about how to succeed with benign "personal brands" and maneuver the political system of their company (rather than innovate), and the new measure of corporate excellence is degree of conscientiousness (again, rather than innovation or smart risk taking), you can look forward to more and more of these bland, risk-averse fucks boring the shit out of you every day at the office.
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I like unions. I am not a fan of trade guilds. They serve different functions, though there are times unions themselves forget it and those are times that they and I often end up on the other side of issues (like immigration). The AMA and ABA are trade guilds.
The cab issue is a bit different, and not related to unions at all. It's related to following the law. Uber is an organized criminal operation that disregards laws that apply to other businesses, like wage payment and minimum wage laws, laws on benefits, etc., based on rather thin legal reasoning. Uber's legal positions on employment law are just like John Yoo's - a thin veil for knowingly criminal behavior, attempting to create cover to protect the perpetrators. Their position on licensing law isn't much better. But they're being protected because they're a fad with the UMC.
Uber's also not new. It's just a piecework labor system. If we can't hire them to do the work at the factory because of the damn minimum wage laws and 40 hour work week, let's just send the work home with them, pay them by the piece, and make enforcing the law almost impossible. Again, we got laws....
