re: Non-Compete agreements are now illegal nationwide!

Non competes are a total prisoners' dilemma. We'd all be better off if no one had them, but the first company to impose them gets an immediate advantage - it can poach employees but other ones can't.

So you end up with this shitty situation where bigger sophisticated entities with lawyers (O___r) are extremely aggressive because they have the savvy and money to enforce them, while smaller companies either don't have them because they don't know wtf they are, or have these patently unenforceable DIY agreements that would never hold up in court. Of course the ALEC types have sway in the leg, while workers don't, so the status quo stays.

I'm not really a constitution guy but the FTC doing a nationwide ban as part of a regulation seems like absurd overreach which will get stayed and eventually overturned by SCOTUS. Maybe the vehicle they need to axe Chevron?