Comment Re:Groklaw is biased, read FOSS Patents instead (Score 2) 149
I think the FOSS community needs to form a foundation to get bad patents invalidated so we can have a decent system again.
I think the FOSS community needs to form a foundation to get bad patents invalidated so we can have a decent system again.
Heard of the AMA and the BMA - They also function as Unions
Do they?
they certainly can have their problems...such a gross misstatement that I cant' imagine you know the actual history of the labor movement.
Everyone wants their hero to be pure. This is just human nature. I don't know what unions you have been a part of and I don't need to. I made no blanket statement concerning all unions. Anyone who discounts the good unions do is a fool. But as with most good things too much of a good thing can be as bad as the disease or problem it addresses. There is nothing keeping the very same type of person taking advantage of you as a corporate executive deciding the grass is greener as the head of a union.
Unions aren't beating and murdering people.
There is more than enough evidence out there to refute this statement. Hell they just spent the last week terrorizing anybody who supported the Michigan legislation.
I would say that welders are today’s blacksmiths.
Which is the point the OP and I were making. Advances to solve a problem inevitably introduce new problems which will need to be serviced
there are more ferries (blacksmiths that work on horses) working today in the US then there were 100 years ago.
I question that on a per capita basis. And while modern ferriers do light blacksmith work on horseshoes they don't generally do much beyond that.
Now get off my lawn!
Unions tend to be more prevalent in fields where automation will flourish. Physical labor, assembly line work, machinists, etc
Unions are prevalent in fields that require less specialized skills (not lack of) meaning there is a broader cross-section of people qualified to do a given task. Because of this owners (This isn't confined just to corporations) tend to feel they can pit potential candidates against each other for the job with it going to the individual willing to do it for the least amount. When unions first came about in the US this practice was rampant and stifling enough people they rose up against it. As with most good intentions many Unions eventually became the master and just as evil as the overlords they were created to overthrow. "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely" - Lord Acton
When I cannot turn on a light switch because it will lead to the unemployment of the "electrical engineer" something has gone terribly wrong.
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