@pluralistic It is not just the apples-to-apples limitation in non-competes, but how widely they are written.
Years ago, I was asked to sign a non-compete as a software engineer. The language was so broad that I technically couldn’t have gone to work at McD’s because they used cash registers, which were computers, so obviously competing!
Fortunately, I was in a position to decline signing, although the CEO accused me of being disloyal.
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