On: How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about

[zo1]

I find it ironic that you call for free-market principles (competition between unions) to be the mechanism by which union-power is kept in check.

[icebraining → zo1]

Nothing ironic about it. Unions, if not enforced on workers by laws, are perfectly valid market mechanisms.

Like economists such as Zingales say, pro-market is not necessarily pro-business, and unions are a good way to gage what people actually support.

[MichaelCrawford → icebraining]

Kuro5hin's Orion Blastar is completely convinced that I am anti-business, despite that I own two different corporations and get all my consulting gigs from businesses.

However it is hard for me to find work at all because I will not work for companies that I regard as unethical. Orion claims this implies that I regard ALL companies as unethical, but no, only certain specific ones.

[danieltillett → zo1]

Why is this ironic? I am a not anti-free markets. If a solution exists for a problem that can be solved by the market then I am of the opinion that the market should solve it.