[lamontcg]

Yeah, I'm calling bullshit on your entire premise.

If you're a non-managerial employee its unethical for any company to force you to sign a non-compete.

We've been subject to so much corporate propaganda that we don't understand what our rights are any more and have them backwards and we've been taught that up is down.

If a company teaches you to hammer nails into a 2x4 they absolutely can't prevent you from hammering a 2x4 for someone else.

Amazon's reach is too broad and they already have the playing field slanted so heavily in their direction that if you decided to compete with them they could squash you like a bug anyway. That whole premise is nonsense.

Fuck all non-competes for workers.

[mimixco]

There aren't usually non competes for workers and I totally agree there shouldn't be... unless they're salaried workers who create intellectual property.

You can't have your cake and eat it, too. If you want to sell software, don't work for someone else in that business. Just sell it yourself!

[irtigor]

In my country, as a salaried dev, I can definitely get sued for copyright infringement if I decide to quit working for a company and open a competing business. Even if I didn't intentionally copied any code/asset the legal process by itself would be a hassle to deal with when I'm just starting a business and depending on how I decided to write my new stuff for my business I can indeed be found guilty because I unintentionally copied myself (same design decisions, using the same tech stack, variable naming convention, same price formula for... to the point that could be reasonable argued that I just copied and pasted some important portions if not the whole code base), so yeah, if I decided to do something like this I would quit before writing a single line of code for my business and probably take a vacation/work on something else for a few weeks, before jumping in.

[lamontcg]

yeah that's bullshit, you can own the IP you can't own what the employee knows about their field. that is just corporate overreach.

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/09/1014366577/biden-moves-to-res...