Comment by slg
9 days ago
Why do the benefits of logistics go to people at the top of the food chain rather than being spread out evenly among everyone? That type of democratization of the benefits is the exact type of thing unions are meant to achieve.
That's how scaling works- more product and distribution with less people. As proven by Amazon, it's what consumers want. Unions only function by taking a share of money and giving it to less people- it's the only way each person makes more.
You're saying that we should have more people get paid by artificially paying less people more...
> Unions only function by taking a share of money and giving it to less people
Isn't that backwards? Don't they take money that previously would be going to the CEO/C-suite; (aka profit), and give it to the union and it's members? The corporation certainly isn't sharing it with the public (aka lower prices) for the fun off it.
Well at some level it is taking away from the larger group of shareholders, but at the end of the day Unions are pretty ineffective at redistributing money from C-Suite to a larger group of people. I haven't seen a union that was all workers vs. C-Suite, it's more like the factory workers take away from accounting or engineering departments. That usually doesn't work out for company morale, leading to worse running and everyone makes less. Totally dependent on the company though, not all unions are bad it's just not a one-size-fits-all and in my experience they've done more harm than good.
You end up just having to cover slackers who choose the life of working less and making less money, but at a company where others want to work harder.