<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marmaduke</author><text>&amp;gt; US labor history has been erased from public dialogue&lt;p&gt;Or inverted? When I hear people talk of unions in the US, it&amp;#x27;s about how shitty theyve made everything.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a paper on classic union issues written with no reference to labor history.&lt;p&gt;There have been companies which really acted like governments to their employees. Ford.[1] Pullman.[2] The US labor movement arose partly as a counter to that. And, for a long time, from about 1930 to 1980, companies backed off on that out of fear of unions and government.&lt;p&gt;That fear has been lost, and companies are more assertive in employee control. Abuse of non-compete agreements to make low-level workers indentured servants would never have been accepted prior to 1990 or so.&lt;p&gt;US labor history has been erased from public dialogue in the US almost as thoroughly as Tienanmen Square has been erased from public dialogue in China.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.autonews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;20030602&amp;#x2F;SUB&amp;#x2F;306020843&amp;#x2F;the-rise-and-fall-of-harry-bennett&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.autonews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;20030602&amp;#x2F;SUB&amp;#x2F;306020843&amp;#x2F;the-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Pullman_Strike&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Pullman_Strike&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives and Why We Don&apos;t Talk about It</title><url>https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/private-government-how-employers-rule-our-lives-and-why-we-dont-talk-about-it/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Mikeb85</author><text>More people need to challenge non-compete agreements.  In the majority of cases (especially for non-management employees) they&amp;#x27;re illegal and don&amp;#x27;t hold up.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a paper on classic union issues written with no reference to labor history.&lt;p&gt;There have been companies which really acted like governments to their employees. Ford.[1] Pullman.[2] The US labor movement arose partly as a counter to that. And, for a long time, from about 1930 to 1980, companies backed off on that out of fear of unions and government.&lt;p&gt;That fear has been lost, and companies are more assertive in employee control. Abuse of non-compete agreements to make low-level workers indentured servants would never have been accepted prior to 1990 or so.&lt;p&gt;US labor history has been erased from public dialogue in the US almost as thoroughly as Tienanmen Square has been erased from public dialogue in China.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.autonews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;20030602&amp;#x2F;SUB&amp;#x2F;306020843&amp;#x2F;the-rise-and-fall-of-harry-bennett&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.autonews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;20030602&amp;#x2F;SUB&amp;#x2F;306020843&amp;#x2F;the-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Pullman_Strike&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Pullman_Strike&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives and Why We Don&apos;t Talk about It</title><url>https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/private-government-how-employers-rule-our-lives-and-why-we-dont-talk-about-it/</url></story>