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Thus avoiding a race to the bottom where truckers drive all day just to feed themselves and our insatiable desire for free shipping.
by denkmoon 7y ago
Thus avoiding a race to the bottom where truckers drive all day just to feed themselves and our insatiable desire for free shipping.
- wavepruner 7y agoBy preventing large numbers of people from working at all. Joining unions is impossible for many. I once lost a job because the union insisted that I be let go rather than let me join. It was not a performance issue.
- merpnderp 7y agoWhat if someone is perfectly happy to drive for $1 less than the union negotiated? Why would you use the force of government, police with guns, to keep them from selling their labor a dollar cheaper. Especially when they’re perfectly happy to do so?
- meesles 7y agoWelcome to America, where we neither practice true Capitalism nor true Democracy contrary to widespread opinion.
- merpnderp 7y agoAlways darkly humorous when people openly support using force to control how people sell their labor in a very strict sense, which is certainly kissing cousins with slavery.
- denkmoon 7y agoYeah, governments setting a market bottom is definitely similar to unpaid, forced labour.