Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Capitalists don't want free labor, where they have to compete with rival capitalists ...
Capitalists don't want free labor, where they have to compete with rival capitalists to bid on their workers' labor - they want noncompetes, bondage fees, and "training repayment agreement provisions" (TRAPs) that force their workers to stay in dead-end jobs rather than shopping for a better wage:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/04/its-a-trap/#a-little-on-the-nose24/
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