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"It's not only anecdotes" and giving more anecdotes isn't an argument.

• dahfizz 6y ago
  They said "It’s not anecdotes __about isolated abuses__". At a certain point, anecdotes become universal experiences, and therefore inform general political views.
  • boomboomsubban 6y ago
    >At a certain point, anecdotes become universal experiences, and therefore inform general political views In reality though we just went from one anecdote to two. We are unable to tell when something is universal experience just by hearing more anecdotes.
    • ardy42 6y ago
      > In reality though we just went from one anecdote to two. We are unable to tell when something is universal experience just by hearing more anecdotes. And even if we somehow got to negative universal experiences, those very well could be: 1. Part of a conscious tradeoff (e.g. firms being less profitable due to higher labor costs). A lot of anti-union rhetoric seems to amount to complaining about not being able to have one's cake and eat it too. 2. Artifacts of law (either direct or indirect) that could solved through legal reform. My understanding is that at least some of the "adversarialness" of US unions derives from the requirements of US law, and German unions (for instance) operate very differently (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany).