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That's the same mentality that longshoremen had before the shipping container and coal miners had before we started importing cheap coal from the East and switc
by odiroot 7y ago
That's the same mentality that longshoremen had before the shipping container and coal miners had before we started importing cheap coal from the East and switching to green energy.
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoA union would not have solved that. Instead, it would likely accelerate it, like it has with the UAW. Unions don’t fix the economics of globalization. Plus, I am not concerned that something similar will happen anyway.
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- macinjosh 7y agoSo a union's purpose is to stop any human progress because it might temporarily inconvenience a subset of the population? I am told a switch to green energy is necessary to save the climate. Shipping containers enabled affordable products to be sold globally which has improved the standard of living for many. Should we ban modern modes of transport so all the horse drawn carriage factory employees can get their jobs back?
- shadowgovt 7y agoThat's an extremely uncharitable interpretation of the utility of unions. Yes, unions add some friction to an overnight change that is made by grinding up the futures and fates of a company's workforce. That doesn't need to mean it "stops all human progress," for example, it can manifest instead as a requirement that company switching to green energy take a chunk of the money from efficiency gains to give their coal miners comfortable retirements.