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coredog64today at 6:52 PM0 repliesview on HN

Personally I think the way to go about this isn't to ban non-compete agreements but instead to get a couple of highly public cases where said non-compete is voided because the employee didn't receive anything of value for it. Once case law is clear that it requires 80% of the employees salary for the term of the lockup, companies will only require it where it makes sense rather than applying it willy-nilly due to the essentially free nature.