[extropy-chat] Jack's right, he's not ready for reality

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Technotranscendence wrote:
> Why are unions for all kinds of mandatory, government enforced work
> rules? Because they also are altruists or because they want to reduce
> the number of positions available in any field to keep wages above a
> market level?

That doesn't make any sense to me.  To keep wages above market level, 
you keep the number of positions artificially high and the number of 
candidate workers artificially low.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence