You being too nice even calling the stance &#x27;pro-business&#x27;. It&#x27;s not even pro-business since labor can&#x27;t flow to the place where they are the most valued.<p>The non-compete situation is one of those prisoner&#x27;s dilemma problems. If you&#x27;re the only one with non-competes then you&#x27;re better off because you can retain employees for less than their market rate, and if everyone except you uses non-competes then you lose your best talent and can&#x27;t attract more.  Thus the short-sighted decision is to use non-competes.<p>But if everyone uses non-competes then labor doesn&#x27;t flow at all, businesses can&#x27;t attract talent, and then everyone is worse off.