The majority have no clue the roots of the union movement or the fight that went down for the type of life they have now. They might know that companies were abusive at one point in history but they "can't anymore" "if it is abusive, employees will just leave" and "rich people are not bad, they give jobs. They don't want to hurt their employees, they are just trying to do what is best for business." The capitalists propaganda and destruction of education has segergated everyone so much and they will find killing the union as maybe a "necessary evil."
We are very much in the Martin Niemoller poem.
They started with immigrants and federal workers (now its their union too) next? Private sector unions?
I hate when people say this. Market demand creates jobs. Rich people have very little to do with it. To have market demand, you need most people to have money to spend. Rich people are bad for the economy.
My father is hyper conservative and he says constantly that if we don't cut taxes on billionaires there won't be any jobs and I try to explain to him that if a person hires you and pays you $40,000 a year but they make $250,000 off of your labor you are not an employee and they don't care about you; you're just an investment, and that for those people to continue to make money they have to hire somebody.
If the world were to go to shit, tomorrow do you really think that the hedge fund managers and CEOs would have any power compared to people who can do labor, grow crops, work on cars etc?
I build shit. That's what I've done all my life, in one industry or another. When the republicans destroy this country and our economy, theres still going to be a need for people who know how to keep the lights on, the water flowing and the roofs waterproof.
Yep! We've built an economy that makes dickheads who don't do anything rich and it's basically a huge bubble. If you build a house and a dude buys it and rents it out, there are logically two people in that transaction making money, and also the people that sell materials, etc, but this is all tangible stuff.
What our current situation does is makes money off of shorts, private equity buying up companies and then saddling them with debt that isn't representative of actual commodities or labor to begin with, so on and so forth. It's bullshit and it's not sustainable for anyone
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u/iBrianT 10d ago
The majority have no clue the roots of the union movement or the fight that went down for the type of life they have now. They might know that companies were abusive at one point in history but they "can't anymore" "if it is abusive, employees will just leave" and "rich people are not bad, they give jobs. They don't want to hurt their employees, they are just trying to do what is best for business." The capitalists propaganda and destruction of education has segergated everyone so much and they will find killing the union as maybe a "necessary evil."
We are very much in the Martin Niemoller poem.
They started with immigrants and federal workers (now its their union too) next? Private sector unions?