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> Averaged across distinct contracts (as opposed to contract-instances) forced arbitration is a very good thing.

Forced arbitration is a very good thing for the employers. It's not a good thing for the employees, who are effectively signing away a huge swath of rights.

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Employers generally use the same contract for all their employees so employer/employee forced arbitration contracts are only a minority of contracts. If a contract is between two corporations each with their own lawyers to review the contract that giving up of their rights to sue each other is actually a good thing. But that depends on the arbitrator being acceptable to each and desiring repeat business from each. It's the employer/employee situation where only one side has lawyers involved in selecting the arbitrator that the situation becomes abusive.

The parent may agree with you, but they said that in a somewhat obscure way. I believe their point is that companies have many distinct contracts with other companies (good) that contain arbitration clauses, and that employers have a smaller number of distinct contracts with employees (bad) that are duplicated thousands of times over.

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