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I love labor and do everything I can to make them productive and happy in the service of working for me. I hate labor activists who want to tell me how to run

I love labor and do everything I can to make them productive and happy in the service of working for me. I hate labor activists who want to tell me how to run my company and antagonize workers to see themselves in some sort of power struggle with management. We are all working for the same mission - make as much money as possible. I don’t need hostile people around.

jedberg 4y ago
> I love labor and do everything I can to make them productive and happy in the service of working for me. > I hate labor activists who want to tell me how to run my company and antagonize workers to see themselves in some sort of power struggle with management If you're actually doing everything you can to make them productive and happy, then you won't have labor activists because they won't have anyone to rally. And if you mean activists at other companies, they shouldn't affect you either, because you're already doing what they are asking for elsewhere, right? > We are all working for the same mission - make as much money as possible. They want to make as much money as they can for themselves which is diametrically opposed to your goal of making as much money for yourself. That's why it's looked at as hostile. The only way to be a good employer of labor is if your goal is to provide a great wage and benefits to your employees and then keep what is left over. Your goal can not be to make as money money as possible, because then you have to keep it away from your workers.
- hnal943 4y ago
  You're forgetting that labor activists are also motivated by profit, which is not necessarily aligned with interests of labor themselves. As we've seen from the social and news media, it's relatively easy to a make people angry and jealous without improving their lives at all.
  - therouwboat 4y ago
    Labor activists = unions/people who run unions? Atleast in my country we pay % of our paycheck to unions, so when I get more, they get more. It really the opposite of my employer, when I get less, they get more.

jedberg 4y ago

> I love labor and do everything I can to make them productive and happy in the service of working for me. > I hate labor activists who want to tell me how to run my company and antagonize workers to see themselves in some sort of power struggle with management If you're actually doing everything you can to make them productive and happy, then you won't have labor activists because they won't have anyone to rally. And if you mean activists at other companies, they shouldn't affect you either, because you're already doing what they are asking for elsewhere, right? > We are all working for the same mission - make as much money as possible. They want to make as much money as they can for themselves which is diametrically opposed to your goal of making as much money for yourself. That's why it's looked at as hostile. The only way to be a good employer of labor is if your goal is to provide a great wage and benefits to your employees and then keep what is left over. Your goal can not be to make as money money as possible, because then you have to keep it away from your workers.

hnal943 4y ago
You're forgetting that labor activists are also motivated by profit, which is not necessarily aligned with interests of labor themselves. As we've seen from the social and news media, it's relatively easy to a make people angry and jealous without improving their lives at all.
- therouwboat 4y ago
  Labor activists = unions/people who run unions? Atleast in my country we pay % of our paycheck to unions, so when I get more, they get more. It really the opposite of my employer, when I get less, they get more.