If I build a factory & fill it with machines, does it belong to me or to the people I hire?

If the people I hire don't like the pay rates they agreed to work for they are free to quit at any time, they are not slaves.

If employees prevent anyone from working or getting into a factory which they do not own, in an effort to get more money out of the owner/employer, what would you call that?

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Where in the definition of union do we have that hypothetical?

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Why not spend this energy on solving for ai/bots than fighting this battle? You can just side step it.

Wtf do ai/bots have to do with bad collective ideology? Are you an ai bot?

Because if you have bots, you can be a pure individual. You don’t need to deal with collectivism.

Groups & cooperation are not problems that individualists want to eliminate. It is simply the belief that *groups matter more than individuals* which needs to be corrected & erradicated.

Groups are abstractions, they don't really exist. It's an imaginary distinction made in individual minds. Groups don't have wants & needs, individual people do.

Any individual should be free to peacefully leave or cease contibuting to any group. If you believe individual wants & needs are less important than the continued existence of any group then you are advocating slavery or human sacrifice in the name of an abstraction.

I hear you. You don’t need to deal with unions if you have bots. Spend less emotional energy.

I re-read On Liberty by John Stuart Mill recently. It's so fucking good.