Biden bans noncompete agreements

 So, in a rather based move, Biden bans most noncompete agreements in the US. And of course, the business interests are salty.

"NO! YOU CAN'T JUST BAN NONCOMPETES, MUH FREE MARKET" (wojak crying face)

"Hahaha labor regulations go brrrr." (based Biden licking an ice cream cone with sunglasses on)

Yeah I could make the actual meme but I'm too lazy. You get the idea.

Anyway. Here's the thing about noncompetes, they're bullcrap. As a condition of employment, you give up your ability to be hired by many competitor at all. And of course, most people accept such agreements, because, well, despite the right acting like this laissez faire free market is a real free market at work, most workers basically don't have much of a say in taking a job. We like to act like work is voluntary, but it's not, so of course people will accept whatever terms the employer sets because it's not like they have a choice, funny how that works. And then the government steps in and says "no, you can't do that" so then businesses get salty over government regulation. But yeah, people just accept these agreements, that lock them into a job, and stop them from being able to leave and go somewhere else, because they have to work somewhere to survive, and if all the businesses do it, then people dont have a choice. I mean, they do, but they really don't. This favors businesses, drives down wages, worsens working conditions, and basically makes employment more like an actual slave contract by making it harder to leave. It's nonsense. people shouldn't be able to just give up their rights like that, but here we are, and predatory capitalism be predatory, so Biden did the right ting, stepped in, and said no more of this.

I admit, it is a band aid. We should be trying to liberate workers from having to work in the first place, but let's face it, biden is the "work has dignity" guy so he'd never come around to my point of view (a huge reason i hated him in 2020), but eh, he's at least been a decent pro labor president for the most part. And let's face it, his one weakness (breaking the railroad strikes) is something New Dealer Truman did too. heck, truman was worse, he threatened to draft the strikers into the military. So Biden is LITERALLY a more pro labor president than FDR's vice president. He ain't bad.

It's little things like this that make me wanna vote for him. See? You can earn my vote, even if you fall short of my insanely high standards. 

Anyway, apparently because business interests are salty, this is likely gonna go to court and because we got a right wing supreme court, it might be shot down. Still, I respect Biden for trying.