The FTC Chair argues for NDAs instead, but NDAs are just a s abused as non-competes, prime example being the former President, using them to shut down revelations of potential CRIMINAL behavior.Non-competes and NDAs should only be legal when there is a definite risk of losing company secrets, such as, to cite an extreme example, the Coca-Cola formula.  Or pending deals where insider information could be priceless.But when I left a small data company 13 years ago, they were very aggressive about protecting their clients and their manuals of standards.  It was laughable.  The clients were small and far away and NOT desirable, and the only interesting manuals, I had written, had written similar ones for past employers, and could easily write them again! Since the owner, a Trump-like bully with no principles, was control freak and micro manager, she managed to turn solid programming standards into weak and inconsistent ones through her editing.  I would never WANT to use them when it was my choice!The idea that minimum wage workers are subject to non-competes and NDAs is straight out of the minds of slave owners, who want workers for free and don't want to pay market rates the way they do for all other inputs.  It's a violation of the very concept of free and open Capitalism.

The FTC Chair argues for NDAs instead, but NDAs are just a s abused as non-competes, prime example being the former President, using them to shut down revelations of potential CRIMINAL behavior.Non-competes and NDAs should only be legal when there is a definite risk of losing company secrets, such as, to cite an extreme example, the Coca-Cola formula.  Or pending deals where insider information could be priceless.But when I left a small data company 13 years ago, they were very aggressive about protecting their clients and their manuals of standards.  It was laughable.  The clients were small and far away and NOT desirable, and the only interesting manuals, I had written, had written similar ones for past employers, and could easily write them again! Since the owner, a Trump-like bully with no principles, was control freak and micro manager, she managed to turn solid programming standards into weak and inconsistent ones through her editing.  I would never WANT to use them when it was my choice!The idea that minimum wage workers are subject to non-competes and NDAs is straight out of the minds of slave owners, who want workers for free and don't want to pay market rates the way they do for all other inputs.  It's a violation of the very concept of free and open Capitalism.

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