No, no!
$ shoot person
I'm sorry Dave but I'm afraid I can't do that!
$ sudo shoot person
OK
So let me get this straight... Just about the best, highest paying jobs, you work in (usually) a plush office or cubicle, work on interesting stuff in nice places (trust me - I do contracting and have worked with many, many clients) and you get this without a union??? And you're trying to convince me that I should let a union come in and "fight for my rights" and take a bunch of the money I'd otherwise have in my pocket so they can go on their fat cat European vacations?!? Thanks but NO THANKS!
Sorry but I already have autonomy and self-management - in fact I run my own corp. What about overtime? I get paid straight time for overtime. I'm not forced to work overtime either as a self employed owner of a company I make the rules for my employees. How about benefits, conditions for contractors and outsourcing concerns? I make enough in my rate structure to provide myself for my own benefits. If you work for yourself and you haven't built such costs into your rate structure then you're a poor businessman! Conditions for Contractors? Yeah, dang the A/C only cools this building down to 74 degrees! I need 70 degrees!!! Outsourcing's only a concern with getting the initial contract. If you're good at what you do you or in demand.
Regulation is not the solution - Wall Street has lots of regulations - they also have Bernie Madoff.
And what the hell are you talking about that people have "no recourse if people want to get their money out/back/etc"!?!? There are already plenty of laws about property and ownership of all kinds of things as well as plain ole money. There's also laws about fraud, etc. People have a much recourse with getting their money back from Paypal as from any other business or store for that matter. People have no recourse?!? BULLSHIT!
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