What. Employees can quit, which is synonymous to firing the boss.
Maybe the bit about software design was correct, but the first two sections incorrectly explaining game theory don’t give me much confidence.
I disagree, quitting is not synonymous with firing the boss. When you leave, the company and your boss retain everything you built. You forfeit your stock options. Finding a new job isn't always trivial, either. Changing jobs and possibly changing locations is expensive.
They aren’t perfectly equivalent, but there’s a strong parallel between the two, which is why transactional employment relationships work.
Employee fires boss, employee makes more money, boss loses work, pays tons of money, and then pays a higher salary.
I do agree about the power imbalance though.
Source: the devs