Comment by Lerc

5 hours ago

How well did they turn out for people each time?

Health insurance, unions, paid vacation... al in all I'd say not that bad.

  • Plenty of other countries have those things as well. And plenty of countries that have even more frequent political upheaval don’t have those things.

    I don’t know that regular political violence is positively correlated with worker protections.

  • also

    >two empires, three monarchies and a bunch of short-lived totalitarian regimes, coups and other major political events.

    Do you think you'd still have the Health insurance, unions, and paid vacation after another roll of the dice