> If 100,000 people are voting on a contract your 1/100,000th share of the influence functionally rounds to zero.
Assuming that you make no effort to influence any of the hypothetical 100,000 people voting on the contract in any way.
> The contract will reflect your coworkers aggregate preferences, which will in general be completely orthogonal to your own preferences.
This is a fairly surprising assertion for me - I can't recall a time I've personally found this to be the case professionally. May I ask how you encountered this in your own professional experience?
> Assuming that you make no effort to influence any of the hypothetical 100,000 people voting on the contract in any way.
And if all 100k people all try to influence each other to different ends that ends up a wash.
> This is a fairly surprising assertion for me
Some people prefer better work life balance, other people prefer higher compensation. Some people want job security, others want higher risk and higher upside. Labour market mobility allows people to sort into the jobs that match their preferences, which is impossible to achieve through collective bargaining because the parts of the collective want different things.
Assuming that you make no effort to influence any of the hypothetical 100,000 people voting on the contract in any way.
> The contract will reflect your coworkers aggregate preferences, which will in general be completely orthogonal to your own preferences.
This is a fairly surprising assertion for me - I can't recall a time I've personally found this to be the case professionally. May I ask how you encountered this in your own professional experience?