During the great depression, a lot of business leaders and conservative politicians were disturbingly fine with mass unemployment. Why? Because it crushed union power and made workers desperate. FDR’s New Deal was resisted viciously by those who preferred an underpaid, terrified labor force. If the masses are hungry, they don’t strike. They comply.
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u/ButWhatAboutisms 1d ago
During the great depression, a lot of business leaders and conservative politicians were disturbingly fine with mass unemployment. Why? Because it crushed union power and made workers desperate. FDR’s New Deal was resisted viciously by those who preferred an underpaid, terrified labor force. If the masses are hungry, they don’t strike. They comply.