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All the other interest groups you mention definitely create the questioning and the criticism. They have just been more successful at permeating public percepti
by conanbatt 8y ago
All the other interest groups you mention definitely create the questioning and the criticism. They have just been more successful at permeating public perception. Almost always being complicit with the state. Doctors? Lawyers? Lobbying? They all get criticism.
I also dissent with the model of "everybody commits an act against society, why shouldnt anyone engage in the race to capture the spoils". Do not institutionalize robbery!
- Apocryphon 8y agoThe other interest groups, with greater power and influence, have already institutionalized it. Should the disempowered simply refuse to engage, and suffer for it?
- conanbatt 8y agoUnion leaders can aim for that they want, I personally commit to dissent all forms of that robbery and desire for a freer and more fair society. I do not want to fight for the spoils of exploitation.
- Apocryphon 8y agoI see. So you yearn for a world without capitalism.
- conanbatt 8y agoIts not capitalism that creates spoils it is the government that takes money from people and then decides what to do with it.
- Apocryphon 8y agoThe ancestral post in this thread that listed many different types of NGOs backed by industry leaders who seek to enlarge their share of the spoils, and asked why unions should not be one of them. No one mentioned government involvement. Maybe society is based upon competition?
- mulmen 8y agoHow are labor unions institutions of robbery?
- conanbatt 8y agoHow do they get substantial benefits for their workers?
- hannasanarion 8y agoBy creating a level playing field for negotiation in an environment where the one who owns the capital could otherwise dictate terms.
- conanbatt 8y agoWhat is the negotiation threat from a union?