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Countless reasons why.

Low job supply in your area and inability to move due to family and other responsibilities tying you down or too busy taking care of your kids to have time to interview and study leetcode or too little time spent on a gig getting you labeled as a job hopper or as a problematic employee by other companies if you don't have enough experience backing you up.

I feel you have no idea how complex people's lives can be.

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Then that was the employees fault. They took the risk of moving to the middle of nowhere, (which for Kickstarter happens to be New York?), and are getting paid a bit less than industry average because of it. Is that a call to unionize? Absolutely not.

It seems like this would be solved by you not going to work for Kickstarter.

Maybe people other than you have problems you cannot see or understand.

1) I agree, me and everyone else. This problem will be solved not through a union, but nobody except the bottom of the barrel wanting to work for Kickstarter. Then they will either bump their pay to get good workers back, or fail. Simple economics.

2) I also agree, but that doesn't mean these workers should unionize.

These are bold assertions with no evidence. We do understand that you don't think these people are entitled to a union, nor are they entitled to live where they want and have the respect they think they deserve. Yet you have not said why. It would seem that Kickstarter employees, the ones with the most information here, do disagree with you though.

If they live in New York, and they have to unionize rather than just find a better job, something tells me they deserve below average industry pay.

Of course the employees would disagree, that doesn't mean anything about what they deserve to be paid.

There is no point in having a conversation if you are going to continue to assert points without any evidence or arguments to back them up. We understand that you look down on this unionization and don't believe that these workers should have the rights that they think they should. You made your point.

Good day.

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