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I've rarely seen such a one sided representation. How about a less ideologically colored view? Both unions and corporations have histories of violence, lack o

I've rarely seen such a one sided representation. How about a less ideologically colored view? Both unions and corporations have histories of violence, lack of efficiency, monopolistic actions, choking off of competition, etc. In fact, you can spread that out to any human institution and add organized religion, sports, government, HOAs, what-have-you to the mix. When a human group gets too much power in their area, abuses arise. In fact, that was the core historical analysis of the founding fathers of the US, hence the separation of powers. By separating powers in the US Constitution, they intentionally added all sorts of inefficiency in order to allow for checks and balances. Unions certainly introduce inefficiency into the free market enterprise, but without them, abuses can and have arisen. Figuring out the right balance of power between unions and corporations should be the goal, but instead we have the current political environment, where unions are demonized because of one sided representations of abuses they led to.

CryptoPunk 7y ago
>Unions certainly introduce inefficiency into the free market enterprise, but without them, abuses can and have arisen. This is the false dichotomy promoted by unions. While obviously there are instances of unions counteracting corporate abusive, unions by-and-large subvert the right to freely contract and the right to private property and therefore increase abuse. They do not combat the main forms of corporate abuse like lobbying to restrict competition via regulatory barriers, licensing restrictions, etc. The NEA for example supported the bank bailout that was a massive subsidy to banking corporations in the form of socializing their losses and risks. Unions are designed specifically to acquire monopolies over labor forces. They are not like corporations where there are good ones and bad ones. Unions are almost all harmful to the freedom to contract because that's what the union organizational structure was designed to do.

CryptoPunk 7y ago

>Unions certainly introduce inefficiency into the free market enterprise, but without them, abuses can and have arisen. This is the false dichotomy promoted by unions. While obviously there are instances of unions counteracting corporate abusive, unions by-and-large subvert the right to freely contract and the right to private property and therefore increase abuse. They do not combat the main forms of corporate abuse like lobbying to restrict competition via regulatory barriers, licensing restrictions, etc. The NEA for example supported the bank bailout that was a massive subsidy to banking corporations in the form of socializing their losses and risks. Unions are designed specifically to acquire monopolies over labor forces. They are not like corporations where there are good ones and bad ones. Unions are almost all harmful to the freedom to contract because that's what the union organizational structure was designed to do.