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You should maybe read about the history of the US labor movement to understand how and why we have good working conditions: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexp
by test098 1y ago
You should maybe read about the history of the US labor movement to understand how and why we have good working conditions: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/theminewars-labor-wars-us/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/themine...
- FredPret 1y agoWe have good working conditions mainly because we can now afford them. Do you think poor people didn't get upset / rebellious in centuries and millennia past? The difference now is that we have the GDP and tech to support much cushier lives for vast numbers of people.
- biophysboy 1y agoTechnology increases the size of the pie, but it is always possible to make the distribution of slices extremely unequal. More gdp and tech does not guarantee a better quality of life, as many countries today demonstrate.
- FredPret 1y agoName such a country and then also explore that country's economic history over the past 200 years. I think you'll be hard pressed to find one where life hasn't gotten vastly better.
- biophysboy 1y agoHaiti