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Your argument works with IP alone and without client lists. You very much want to put a company's client list in the same bag as IP but it just doesn't belong. Protecting one (arguably) allows people to invest in developing something that is easy to copy when it already exists. Protecting the other is just anti-competitive practice and should be banned.

>>Assuming you think this scenario is ethically wrong (maybe you don’t?), can you explain the type of contract the original company should have with their employees to disincentivize this scenario? If everything is left unchecked, there’s huge incentive and easy pathway to screw over employers for short-term gain

"You can't use our IP if you leave, feel free to go to the clients and offer them your own product".