[gruez]

>US corporations have become so large, they have started to function internally not unlike the fully fledged managed economies of the USSR

The important difference you're missing is that unlike china or the USSR, there are competitors you can jump ship to (eg. Lenovo or HP), and Dell can't send you to the gulag for disagreeing with them.

[_aavaa_]

While a nice meme, it doesn't at all take away from the point that many large companies operate like planned economies, ee for example Walmart: https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/636-the-people-s-r...)

[rickydroll]

But they can deny you severance payments if you say anything bad about them. Not all companies do this, but enough that it makes the analogy to China or the USSR more appropriate

[gruez]

How is "you're denied payments voluntarily made to you" anywhere close to "you get sent to the gulag"?

[jiveturkey]

no. anti-disparagement clauses in severance agreements are illegal.

[rickydroll]

Thank you for pointing out my error.

"The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) held in a February 2023 decision, McLaren Macomb, 372 NLRB 58 (2023), that the “mere proffer” of a severance agreement which conditions receipt of benefits upon forfeiture of protected rights under the NLRA constitutes an unfair labor practice."

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/labor_law/publications/la...