Comment by toomuchtodo

1 day ago

Power, status, and control attract the same personalities, regardless of entity type.

It happens that these are also the types that are attracted to union leadership positions

  • Humans are imperfect, systems require continual improvement. I’ll take a suboptimal union over no union any day, especially in the economic human factory farm that is the US. Companies, governments, and unions are all just people. Sometimes we win, sometimes we learn, we try to win more than we learn.

    I’m not delusional, I’m always going to be working class in compared to predatory wealthy people who do not need to work. I’m not a temporarily embarrassed billionaire. I’ll take every guardrail I can get. And so, I support unions, even though I do not need one. It is a decision based on logic and reason from first principles.

    https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1706

    https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Labor-Unions-And-...

    • That's fair, I have witnessed unions that took companies to the ground, were a center of corruption and created class favoritism between old and new workers.

      That does not say it cannot work, or is never needed though

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As a union member you have a say over that.

Imagine if Mozilla's bosses were accountable to the developers