That's because it doesn't work. The job already pays enough that everyone who can do the job will do the job for someone. So paying more just means poaching staff from somewhere else. Someone is going to be the losing bidder
> So paying more just means poaching staff from somewhere else. Someone is going to be the losing bidder
That is how capitalism and the free market are supposed to work. What gives one company, or a set of arbitrary companies, the right to hold wages down? Or to own the very mind of a person? To restrict that person from working elsewhere? To restrict that person from seeking justice in a court of law?
> The job already pays enough that everyone who can do the job will do the job for someone.
People have to eat and live, which is why they'll do the job for someone. But that shouldn't mean they can't seek out better offers.
> What gives one company, or a set of arbitrary companies, the right to hold wages down?
The lack of someone to stop them.
Unions have been demonized so long that they're assumed to be universally bad, but a corporation is a collection of people and resources organized to pursue a goal their members couldn't pursue individually. One of the advantages they have is superior bargaining power. Corporations often take advantage of this power, corrupting the market.
A union is another organization of people and resources attempting to get more for its members through increased bargaining power. Sometimes they do this in a way that corrupts the market. But unions are inherently bad and are being driven to extinction, while corporations are inherently good and ever more powerful.
You may have missed the part about me doing this specifically so I can raise everyone's salaries, not because I'm sharing secrets or being a braggart or some mundane thing like that.
