Comment by WalterBright
2 days ago
How did that French Revolution work out? The Communist revolution in Russia? The Cuban revolution?
Free markets always result in prosperity. Worker revolts never have.
2 days ago
How did that French Revolution work out? The Communist revolution in Russia? The Cuban revolution?
Free markets always result in prosperity. Worker revolts never have.
I feel I need to repeat myself so you can properly read: I clearly mentioned both were required to bring forth better quality of life to workers. Without workers' revolt there is only ever increasing exploitation, every single perk the poorer have got after advances brought forward by free markets was through a revolt, a mass protest, general strike, without those there would still be slavery, legalised child labour, 16h workdays, etc.
Yet again you are lost in ideology, Walter, it gets very tiring after a while, you only got a hammer and you gotta nail everything with that hammer. It's comically myopic.
> Yet again you are lost in ideology
I could say the same about your arguments. Labor unions simply did not affect a high enough percentage of the population to attribute American prosperity to them.
> without those there would still be slavery
Slavery was abolished due to the Union Army, not unions. I've never heard any mention of labor unions being part of the abolishonist movement.
> legalised child labour
The abolition of child labor was not the result of labor unions.
> 16h workdays
Were only made possible by productivity improvements brought about by free markets.
> It's comically myopic
What's funny is all these learned academics who overlook the glaringly obvious and consistent correlation of free markets with prosperity, and keep coming up with other reasons for prosperity that aren't consistent at all.