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by sneak 1721 days ago
It's nothing to do with livelihood and everything to do with the liquidity of the labor market.

If a person can get another job immediately, you aren't harming them by declining to continue to be a customer. In fact, you employing them is no power over them at all (unless you were overpaying them relative to their market value).
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octodog 1721 days ago
> If a person can get another job immediately

This does not happen in reality. There are transactional costs involved in job searching plus additional costs that come from onboarding.

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sneak 1721 days ago
It regularly happens in reality. I know people who have walked out of one job, crossed a street, and walked in to another less than a half hour later. With construction, bartenders, kitchen and waitstaff, bussers, and security it is ridiculously common.

It becomes more common the lower skill the job becomes, as the fungibility of the worker increases.

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