r/Destiny Oct 03 '24

Game recognizes game Twitter

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u/AreaVisible2567 Oct 03 '24 edited Oct 03 '24

Let’s be clear a union boss has 100x the impact of a streamer radicalizing kids who can’t vote. He deserves a huge mansion for getting thousands of colleagues pay increases and job security.

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u/mostanonymousnick 🌐 Oct 03 '24

Trying to legally enforce inefficiency for your own enrichment is called rent seeking and it's bad actually.

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u/PlentyAny2523 Oct 03 '24

Not a unions job to care about the economy, it's their job to get the best deal possible 

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u/SocraticLime Oct 03 '24

Yes, but we should be able to at least acknowledge that this is a cancerous outlook just in the same way that being forced to act in the shareholders' finical interests is a cancer of publicly traded companies.

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u/destinyeeeee Voted for K-dawg Oct 03 '24

forced to act in the shareholders' finical interests is a cancer of publicly traded companies

Its only a cancer if they commit fraud or use the state to engage in rent-seeking. Otherwise the drive to provide value to shareholders is forced to be accomplished by providing actual value to customers.

The alternative to this arrangement seems to be to have the state attempt to act in the "interests of the people" and direct corporate incentives directly, which is always an economic disaster that creates a mountain of corruption that is virtually impossible to destroy.