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I don't think that makes sense. While there is considerable overlap, the group of exploited workers is fundamentally a different group than the group of exploit
by n8cpdx 5y ago
I don't think that makes sense. While there is considerable overlap, the group of exploited workers is fundamentally a different group than the group of exploited tenants.
The issue of housing affordability is also, primarily, an issue of housing policy, rather than labor policy.
The evicted people aren't going to be able to tell a clear story about who they are, why they are fighting non-labor (which I guess is business and employers), and why a labor uprising is the answer to a housing policy and pandemic response failures.
I don't expect a clear answer, because recently, popular uprisings have been very unimpressive in terms of intellectual rigor. I moved to Portland expecting to join up with more radical groups, but I quickly learned that no one is really serious (hence why despite having overwhelming resources compared to the police force, they haven't succeeded in making change).
In my experience, an unserious labor movement is one of the more convincing arguments for a neoliberal approach. Add to that public sector unions tarnishing the brand of organized labor in general (see police unions, teacher's unions) and I just don't see it.
- dredmorbius 5y agoRents and wages are inextricably bound. One cannot address one without addressing the other, least a gain in one side be appropriated from the other. The law of rent meets the iron law of wages. An excellent recent comment: "All goes back to the land, and the land owner is able to absorb to himself a share of almost every public and every private benefit" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28267591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28267591 http://www.andywightman.com/docs/churchill.pdf http://www.andywightman.com/docs/churchill.pdf