This is one reason why unions and collective bargaining is important

Historically speaking there is a reason why those who stood up to the aristocracy had an army at their back.

Historically speaking one lonely person giving the king the middle finger generally did not have positive results for the person with a greivance.

It is interesting how right wingers who come out of the Royalist tradition miss that point.

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biandlargeny · 56-60, M

An antiquated argument. Unions have similarly become useless. The US now has departments suck as OSHA to protect workers. Unions now only serve to artificially drive up the cost of production and the price to the consumer.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@biandlargeny A complete strawman because unions in the US are an endangered species. Might be a connection there. lol

biandlargeny · 56-60, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow there usefulness has been gone for free decades. It's time

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@biandlargeny Except reality proves the exact opposite. Workers rights and benefits are over half a century behind the rest of the developed world, those departments you mentioned have been co-opted decades ago and unions have been an endangered species since the 70s and US worker's buying power has been in a constant nose dive since. In the 80s they tried to paper it over with mountains of credit.

Wishful thinking won't change that. Hell some states have even reintroduced indentured servants and debtors prison like it is the 1800s again and some libertarians are trying to re-litigate child labour laws.